Rock On - A Mega Man ZX RP

Story

It is the year 25XX.

Long gone are the crises from the past, such as the Eurasia Colony crash that nearly brought the entire human and reploid races extinct and the Maverick Wars that plagued the world for decades, its heroes and perpetrators who continuously waged a seemingly endless war fading into history. The insurrections of reploids against humans and the prejudice brought against each other born from fear and ignorance are but distant memories of the past, stored in history books and ancient records, but even these are scarce.

In Neo Arcadia, capital of Elysium, mankind and reploids finally manage to coexist without tensions in-between, their differences growing smaller by the day thanks to technological innovations making them barely distinguishable from each other.

Modern era’s society, however, is not free of its woes: Crescent use of machines for the most menial tasks made viral outbreaks particularly dangerous; militarization and advances in technological warfare led nations to compete and compromise with each other, the fear of another potential extinction event wrought by war haunting each national leader’s mind; crime organizations pose a threat from the shadows, their arsenal capacity becoming increasingly dangerous.

In response to these delicate issues, national security is given priority and funds for projects have been given by governments willing to back up these efforts. Thus was the MEGA System created – a project that allowed its users to channel the powers and abilities of reploids of old, serving as a special task force meant to enforce national security.

Ongoing for 5 years, the initiative bore enough fruits to be well received and backed up. The few who were compatible with the designed Biometals were recruited into that special task force, responding to emergencies in a national scale.

Disclaimers:

Welcome to the sign-up thread! I hope the premise of playing as a special task force of Biometal users who hunt down Mavericks is interesting for you too.

Also, I expect that potential roleplayers already know the basics of Mega Man ZX, like what Biometals are and the setting. Everything else is "original", so having played both games to the end isn't necessary.

There are also some things I need to clear out first: This canon happens after X5. Thus, the Zero series didn't happen (the other X series games did, but differently), Zero is definitely dead/MIA since X5, Ciel isn't the creator of the Biometals (or, at least, it's not her original incarnation), people know about the Maverick Wars but much information on its details was lost (or hidden on purpose).

If the premise of roleplaying as a character member of a police-esque task force using Biometals made after Mavericks (so, no original hero Models, like X or Z) from the X era seems appealing enough for you, welcome aboard!

New Mechanics:

The Biometals also serve as PE Ts. That means, yes, they can hack into systems and do some virus busting, sometimes mandatorily in order to progress/stop a foe, or to avoid a much harder battle.

They don't use chips, operating autonomously (and with their own personalities based around the Mavericks, except less riot-y), but having your chars navigate your NAV Is is important, since navigators have access to maps (depends on the network area you're accessing) and local room scans (imagine dungeon-crawler/RP games' maps).

The caveat is that your characters need to de-transform to use this functionality. They need to find a safe spot to do this, or cover each other while someome hacks into the system. Or, if things get badly enough, disconnect and transform again, hoping you didn't get shot in the meantime.

Sign-Up Sheet:

Name:

Age: (17-55, since, you know, you can't be a minor or be at age of retirement) Appearance: (safe pics only are allowed)

Biometal: (Only Maverick modelled Biometals. No special Mavericks, such as Sigma, Double, Vile, Bit/Byte, Gate, Red, Lumine and the X-Hunters)

Biometal’s abilities: (exactly what it says, but I'll question OP stuff and potentially nerf them, such as Dark Dizzy stopping time)

Personal skills: (good with engineery, hacking, cooking…? Hightlight your char’s most important personal skills)

Bio: (Your char’s backstory)

Edited by Rapier on Sep 15th 2018 at 1:27:43 AM

Oh man, so much interest! I'll start coming up with someone right now! Probably someone with a Dragoon Biometal!...if I read that right anyway.

• Name: Kizen Akida

• Age: 26

• Appearance: (safe pics only are allowed)

• Biometal: Model M (Magma Dragoon)

• Biometal’s abilities: Being that Magma Dragoon was a very hands on hand to hand combat master, and that transitions into his Biometal powers. He allows the user to gain increased strength, defenses and speed, while allowing for the use of fire based attacks such as "Flame Breath" (Visually, he puts his hands together and shoots a stream of fire directly at the point of origin), Flame Pillars (Throwing fireballs at a location and causing a massive burst of fire to erupt from it), in addition to coating his punches and kicks with flames.

• Personal skills: Kizen is just as good with hand to hand combat as well, enforced further by his connection with his Biometal. In addition, he's a massive nerd when it comes to hacking computers and what have you.

• Bio: Kizen was trained hard in the self defense arts once he turned 8, and he found himself the target of some rather cruel children. His father, having none of that, took him under his wing to train him to defend himself. It may have gone a little too well, and while his abilities to defend himself were good, it eventually transitioned into protecting others as well. With a new mentality, and a rather toxic one, bordering self martyrism, he wants nothing more than to protect everyone he can, however he can. So when the Model M Biometal connected to him, he saw his chance...not knowing the Biometal's original history.

So by "modeled after Mavericks" do you mean the specific Mavericks that were in X or do you mean just based on Mavericks in general? I've seen folks specify whether or not OC's or crossover characters are wanted/allowed in recent RP's and I may as well check.

Also, a character.

• Name: Inabel Mortus
• Age: 25
• Appearance: Inabel isn't very fit or tall and has kind of a tummy.◊ She wears a lot of wetsuits for work, modified with special belts and rigs to hold tools. She's not built for adventuring, she's built for work. Morphed into Model SA she gets a short pointed light blue helmet with white trim, a darker blue bodysuit with light plating on her torso, boots, and arms in the same color patterns as her gauntlets, and four tentacles that come out of her back.
• Biometal: His name is Squid Adler, you cowards. Model SA.
• Biometal’s abilities:
  • Inabel's tentacles can whip and hurl and strike things with more strength than she has elsewhere. They can extend fairly far off her back or compress into a more manageable form.
  • As an aquatic Biometal, she can swim and survive freely underwater at absurd depths She mostly propels herself along with her tentacles, allowing herself for short, powerful dashes in single directions.
  • Inabel's own programming experience allows her to finely manipulate electricity with her tentacles. She mostly does this on an extremely low power level to gain an instinctual understanding of electronics, as well as the ability to exert control over those system. She can also expel large blasts of electricity, and in water hold that electricity together to not just diffuse it around all the water near her.
• Personal skills:
  • Inabel is technically a "Network Security Professional." So, a white-hat hacker, mostly adept at defending and fixing systems more than breaking into them. She's got a full degree and multiple years experience working in electronics professionally.
  • Inabel used to do a lot of volunteer work in underwater maintenance and search-and-rescue so she knows basic medical techniques, she knows how to swim and use scuba gear outside her biometal, and she is a fairly strong swimmer.
  • Inabel has had her Biometal for multiple years and while she lacks actual martial arts training she knows how to fight as Model SA.
• Bio: Inabel grew up on a flotilla of high-tech ships called the Cyber Line, which served a variety of needs for their contractors from work as a data center to meteorology for the mainland. Inabel herself was born into a comfortable and supporting life, and she got some fairly cushy work as a tech for a data center at an extremely early age, but for her it wasn't enough. Only a few months in she was having doubts. She got work as a volunteer EMT to try to "pay forward" her luck getting such a nice job, and it was this aggressive valor that got her a place on the taskforce quick. She left behind her old work without a second thought, determined to help all the people less fortunate than her.

Edited by Taco on Sep 10th 2018 at 4:30:39 AM

Your sign-up is fine, it just needs to include an appearance for your character.

I mean the canon X series Mavericks. So, no OC Mavericks, players need to pick one of the pre-existing ones.

Also, you're in. Welcome!

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By the way, there's something I forgot mentioning: The Models receive the initials from its Mavericks. Magma Dragoon should be MD, Squid Adler should be SA (Taco already did this by default, though), and so on.

I also forgot to mention that the Models also have PET functionality. That means, yes, they can hack into systems and do some virus busting. They don't use chips, but having your chars navigate your NAV Is is important, since navigators have access to maps (depends on the network area you're accessing) and local area scans. The caveat is that your characters need to de-transform to use this functionality.

Sorry for not including this earlier. This RP started as a Discord thing among friends, and most of our info was shared informally. I'll edit the first post.

Edited by Rapier on Sep 15th 2018 at 1:23:33 AM