Rest in Pieces: A Mass Effect RP (interest topic)(full, but open via PM)

[SpectacularWebHead]

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I?ve made a few edits along with the age thing.

Spoiler: Gnos

Name: Gnos, Urdallias vas Cuttlefish

Age: 406 (This might need to be changed I'm not exactly sure of the dates)

Gender: None

Species:
Asari (Quarian father)

Description:
Short for an Asari Nace's skin is a bright turquoise shimmering slightly with darkened stripes. Her crests are rather damaged indicating fairly extensive surgery. People seem to find her attractive which she guesses is just part of being an Asari. She doesn't really put much effort into her appearance dressing practically as opposed to stylishly. She wears an old dusters coat and boots designed to walk on any terrain. Her clothes and equipment are all built to minimise noise where ever possible.

Weapons:
Sniper Rifle, Omni-Blade

Abilities:
AI hacking, Tactical cloak, decoy

History:

Born on Rannoch in the early days of the geth, before the morning war. Her Asari mother was a traveller/ explorer who spent most of her time away from home exploring the galaxy trying to make it rich. Her "father" was a Quarian scientist a key researcher in the development of the geth. They met when the first cuttlefish crashed on Rannoch and fell for each other while the ship was being repaired.

Early life wasn't so easy Gnos was born with several mental problems; they ranged from an inability to form memories to emotional instability. These combined with her natural biotic powers made her very dangerous.

Neither of her parents was very good at the emotional side of things so their solution to her problems were a little unconventional. Using the still nascent geth tech her father constructed a neural implant.

Its purpose was simple, use a partial Ai (not quite its own person but close) to help compensate for her mental deficiencies and manage her brain functions. For example her memories could be stored and managed on a hard drive to help both with storage and recall.
It worked; at least mostly it allowed her to control herself much better, her memory and ability to think clearly and quickly were massively improved. But you don't make someone part Ai without causing a few problems. For one her biotic powers proved unmanageable, so there was no choice but to inhibit them as heavily as possible. The lack of biotic powers does cause problems between her and other Asari, especially since she doesn?t know any so closely.

She also became more socially distant especially for an Asari, she got a reputation for being cold and calculating and she still struggles with working out emotions.

In essence she changed. It didn't help that after the surgery her mother travelled even more and was home even less or that her father was taken away because the war was starting.
She was still extremely young, not nearly old enough to fight so she was evacuated with her extended family to the flotilla. Time passed, her mother never returned. Maybe she couldn't or maybe she didn't want to. What happened to her father was never officially confirmed but she didn't need confirmation.

Being as long lived as she was she saw generations of her family come and go.
Unfortunately it was common knowledge there was geth in her, as time advanced tensions grew before reaching breaking point. She left, not entirely willingly but not entirely unwillingly either.

She spent the next 50 years or so finding herself. She came to realise there was science and war in her blood and started using her natural talents. Working as a gun for heir or in some cases spying. Her unique situation caught the attention of certain special interest groups. Something about an Overlord. She did her best to avoid them, sticking to shadows not being noticed.

Eventually she received a message.

"You won't know me, but I've heard all about you. I know what you are and I know people want that. But I'm here to make a deal. If you can do a little job for me I can offer you protection from Cerberus, There's been an attack on the citadel council and we need someone like you to look into it."

A less desperate or hunted Gnos wouldn't even have considered the offer. But in these times. She accepted

So is that all? Is the character accepted?

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Would either of you be interested in setting up shared back story between our characters? Could be good preparation for the rp and would be good to work out how our character's would or wouldn't get on.

If you like. Just to clarify, you're the asari/quarian Gnos, right?

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

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Sure am

Any ideas already or not yet?

If you've spent some time with Quarians you might have heard of me.

Maybe met you a couple of times, sort of both of us as casual acquaintances or something.

 

[Ruedyn]

I'll give this a shot. Tell me how badly I suck at this!

Spoiler: Corporal Yates

Name: (CPL.) Baxter Yates

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Description: 6'1 with cleancut black hair and clean shaven, his build is that of a standard soldier. The only things that make him memorable are his piercing green eyes and his ability to seemingly never smile. He favors his modified Krogan Liberator armor for it's protection. When off duty, he wears his fathers hand-me-down N7 leather jacket and cargo pants.

Spoiler: Armor image

Weapons: Avenger assault rifle and a Paladin pistol, modified heat sink to hold 5 rounds.

Abilities: Frag grenade, armor piercing rounds, First-Aid (can be switched out with Adrenaline rush).

History: His father was an N7 agent, and one of the men defending London with Shepard, but he took a ship out when things got too hot. He was arrested for desertion, and his legacy has hounded Baxter since he first joined up. Baxter had to work his way up from the ground floor as a national guard member to marine, and almost made it to N7. That was ruined when a rumor circled around that he had raped and killed a Quarian on Omega, but the case was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Ever since he's been doing stunt after stunt, hoping for that shot again.

 

[Ruedyn]

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I've asked the others but would you like to set up shared back story?

Sure, I think we could get into quite the shenanigan together

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I'll give this a shot. Tell me how badly I suck at this!

Spoiler: Corporal Yates

Name: (CPL.) Baxter Yates

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Description: 6'1 with cleancut black hair and clean shaven, his build is that of a standard soldier. The only things that make him memorable are his piercing green eyes and his ability to seemingly never smile. He favors his modified Krogan Liberator armor for it's protection. When off duty, he wears his fathers hand-me-down N7 leather jacket and cargo pants.

Spoiler: Armor image

Weapons: Avenger assault rifle and a Paladin pistol, modified heat sink to hold 5 rounds.

Abilities: Frag grenade, armor piercing rounds, First-Aid (can be switched out with Adrenaline rush).

History: His father was an N7 agent, and one of the men defending London with Shepard, but he took a ship out when things got too hot. He was arrested for desertion, and his legacy has hounded Baxter since he first joined up. Baxter had to work his way up from the ground floor as a national guard member to marine, and almost made it to N7. That was ruined when a rumor circled around that he had raped and killed a Quarian on Omega, but the case was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Ever since he's been doing stunt after stunt, hoping for that shot again.

Not bad, but I have one point that I want to make sure you've considered. Would a quarian Spectre really want someone with that rumor floating around working on her team? If you are willing to accept the consequences your character would have with that...reputation, than I don't mind. Bit dark, even for the setting, but it's just backstory.

 

[Ruedyn]

Not bad, but I have one point that I want to make sure you've considered. Would a quarian Spectre really want someone with that rumor floating around working on her team? If you are willing to accept the consequences your character would have with that...reputation, than I don't mind. Bit dark, even for the setting, but it's just backstory.

Yeah, I've been in a bit of a grimdark mood lately (Although, I never said he did it.) :\

Still, I think I can live with the consequences.

 

[ecoho]

just want to throw these questions out there before i try and make a sheet:

1. who lived through Mass Effect 3 in the RP?

2. can you use any of those people as your ancester

3.if the love intrest of the shepard in the RP survived, will we meet his decendent?(i know that that ancestery would be off limits in terms of player characters dont worry.)

4.whats the time frame till the start?

5. finally what times were you planing to hold sessions.

(sorry if anythings misspelled spell check is haveing issuses today and im dyslexic so yeah spellings not my strong point unassisted will have it fixed by tonight.)

 

[Ruedyn]

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Any ideas?

No, but they could've worked together as an enemy of my enemy sort of thing?

I don't have much :|

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

1. Everyone but EDI. However, don't expect any surprise appearances.

2. I'd rather you not, as it's an easy way to inadvertently Mary Sue.

3. No, you will not.

4. Once I get the number of people I want, I'll start soon.

5. It's hard to plan sessions at certain times with so many timezones, so the general rule is two action posts and a reasonable number of dialogue posts between my posts, to prevent someone missing a day, and returning to find they are 8 pages and an story progression behind.

Not bad, but I have one point that I want to make sure you've considered. Would a quarian Spectre really want someone with that rumor floating around working on her team? If you are willing to accept the consequences your character would have with that...reputation, than I don't mind. Bit dark, even for the setting, but it's just backstory.

Yeah, I've been in a bit of a grimdark mood lately (Although, I never said he did it.) :\

Still, I think I can live with the consequences.

Welcome, then.

 

[jjofearth]

Name: Valentin Niktovich Volkov
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Species: Drell
Description: Tall, wiry, and green. Extensive burn scars up the left side of his torso and face (eyes intact). Looks like he would have been very handsome before the scarring. Wears a button-up shirt, waistcoat and jeans.
Weapons: Heavily modified & personalised sniper rifle, named 'Kostya'. Throwing knives.
Abilities:*see below
History: Valentin doesn't know the circumstances of his birth, or who his real parents are - all he knows is that he was dropped on the doorstep of a Moskovian couple who had recently moved to the Citadel and he was raised by them. This resulted in him being raised in a human culture, meaning that he has no strong connection to the drell or drell identity - for example, he is not religious, as many of the drell are, and he has no great love for the hanar. He neglects to tell people about his childhood for reasons that only he and his personnel file know - but at age 18 he ran away from his home to live on the streets somewhere else in Zakera ward. It didn't go well for him, and after an incident with a gang leader that left him unconscious in a ditch with extensive burns up the left side of his body, he was taken in by C-Sec and given medical care and a job. He didn't talk much, but spent most of his time in the firing range avoiding contact with anyone else. He was eventually promoted to investigator despite the animosity of his peers, has recovered from his depression following his injury, and has remained in the wards fighting crime since.
Further Notes: Things I know but haven't included here for the sake of dramatic tension are: the state of his childhood, what his parents were like, if he ever saw them again, why his gun is called Kostya, the incident with the gang leader. Valentin is...how to put it...fond of taking the piss? He's not of the belief that 'professionalism' entails 'acting like Scrooge with a stick up his end all of the time', and is fond of joking around both in his free time and on the job, a habit which has earned him equal parts respect and derision.

* abilities. If you don't object at all, I would like to trade in all 3 abilities for improbably good aim with his rifle (and competency with throwing knives, as a given). If not, please say.

Also, our characters would have been at C-Sec together, but yours wouldn't have known him personally, only known of him and seen him around. If you'd rather I include the un-included bits, or even PM you with them, please say.

If not, I have a backup:

Name: Admiral Merry Sioux
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Species: Half-human, half-drell
Description: pretty
Weapons: everything
Abilities: Biotic powers, tech powers, and omnipotence
History: Born of a virgin, joined alliance military at the age of 2 and saved Shepard's life 17 times before the age of 5, when she was promoted to admiral
Further notes: If in doubt, she wins

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

That seems fair, for the abilities replacement. And I did get a chuckle out of your back up. I accept your first character.

 

[hiei82]

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Character is effectively done (after a complete overhaul ^_^), but I do have one last (2-part) question: Where does the game start (e.g. Citadel, Earth, Thessia, Omega, Middle of Nowhere, etc) and do all the characters know each other yet or are we going to have a "form the team" moment?

 

[jjofearth]

OH YAYYY, thank you I haven't done an RP in so long, I've been wanting to for ages - and I just finished playing all 3 games for the first time, and they're pretty much the best thing ever. I feel I should mention that I live in the UK, so time zones are confusing, but oh well.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

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Character is effectively done (after a complete overhaul ^_^), but I do have one last (2-part) question: Where does the game start (e.g. Citadel, Earth, Thessia, Omega, Middle of Nowhere, etc) and do all the characters know each other yet or are we going to have a "form the team" moment?

Starts on the Citadel, since that's where the Spectre has jurisdiction. As for the characters knowing each other, some might know each other, but there will be a "form the team" moment.

OH YAYYY, thank you I haven't done an RP in so long, I've been wanting to for ages - and I just finished playing all 3 games for the first time, and they're pretty much the best thing ever. I feel I should mention that I live in the UK, so time zones are confusing, but oh well.

I agree with you on the games. Hell, up until about a week ago, my avatar was a Tali promo pic. Had that avatar for almost 4 years. And don't worry too much about the time zone changes. I'll keep the story from moving too fast without everyone participating.

 

[jjofearth]

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Character is effectively done (after a complete overhaul ^_^), but I do have one last (2-part) question: Where does the game start (e.g. Citadel, Earth, Thessia, Omega, Middle of Nowhere, etc) and do all the characters know each other yet or are we going to have a "form the team" moment?

Starts on the Citadel, since that's where the Spectre has jurisdiction. As for the characters knowing each other, some might know each other, but there will be a "form the team" moment.

OH YAYYY, thank you I haven't done an RP in so long, I've been wanting to for ages - and I just finished playing all 3 games for the first time, and they're pretty much the best thing ever. I feel I should mention that I live in the UK, so time zones are confusing, but oh well.

I agree with you on the games. Hell, up until about a week ago, my avatar was a Tali promo pic. Had that avatar for almost 4 years. And don't worry too much about the time zone changes. I'll keep the story from moving too fast without everyone participating.

Great about the time-zone thing. Thanks. I'm actually so excited, I have so many story ideas (well character arc ideas, really) this is gonna be awesome. A couple of questions:
Is it going to be held here on the escapist or do you have your own site?
Are things going to be decided with dice rolls or roleplaying & common sense?

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I'm interested if there's a spot open.

Question: As I've never done an RP here, would I be expected to literally be on call to respond to in-game events regularly? Like, would I HAVE to respond many times a day to keep things going? Because on weekends, I may only be able to respond once or twice a day...