Why not? RPG #3 Redo - SCI-FI RPG Plot & Profiles

[Kage Chaos]

Alright. I'm bringing back #3.

Here's some basics....

1. No magic. Only technology and skills.
2. Think futuristic. Space travel, robots, lasers, etc.

I think you get the point.

I think we can all start as prisoners just like last time. That seemed to work well until certain people just went crazy.


BUT

This is not about passing around the blame and whatnot, so just leave that alone. Let's make some characters, discuss a good plot, and go!

Basically, for now, we'll all start by being taken prisoners as the enemies (some sort of aliens) take over our base on one of the moons of Sendorr (our home planet, or close to your home planet if you feel like being more creative.)

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Name: Nova Lunam
Age: 23

Occupation: Currently a hacker (Bounty Hunter before the war started)

Appearance: Medium height with brown hair and blue eyes, wears ordinary clothing most of the time, and has burn marks (from blaster pistols) just under his right ear.

Background: Having grown up alone, Nova became a bounty hunter with his dream to one day get a star cruiser of his own. When he became 18, he was drafted into the Intergalactic Military, and because he had computer skills, he was trained further to break down the security systems of the enemy alliance.

[Foxee]

This sounds like fun! I'd love to take a shot at a futuristic one. I'll post a profile later today if I can...if not then asap.

[Foxee]

Is this to be our first contact with aliens or will we already have met alien races?

[blossom]

Wicked. I'll bring back dear old Lilia from #3 then ... and, apart from Foxee's queries, can we get a little background on the war?

Name: Lilia Salwyth
Age: 21

Occupation: Mechanic/Pilot

Appearance: 5'2", with shoulder length light brown, tawny hair and blue-grey eyes. Suntanned skin dusted with freckles. Mostly wears a tshirt and denim overalls, usually splattered with oil stains, with gloves and oversized boots. Also wears a silver heart-shaped locket.

Background: Grew up with a mechanic father and pilot mother, both of whom passed on their skills to Lilia and were part of the intergalatic military. She joined up when she turned 18 to follow in her parents' footsteps, but four months laters they both went MIA. Since then Lilia has worked furiously to better herself, always hoping that by some miracle her parents were still alive.

[Kage Chaos]

The war has been going on for about 5 years.

Yes, we've had contact with the aliens. We'll say they haven't always been enemies, but never allies either.

The war is gonna be over territory. A new galaxy has been discovered in the outer reaches of space, and the planets in that galaxy are filled with unknown (and seemingly valuable) minerals of some kind.

The humans (most likely us, unless you want to make up an alien race) and a few friendly aliens are fighting against other aliens to take control of the planets.

Any ideas for the different names of alien races would be appreciated.

[Foxee]

Name: Aeve Morrison
Age: 27
Appearance: 5’4” athletic build.
Her eyes are violet, the lids tattooed at the lash line to look like she’s wearing thin slanted lines of black and cobalt blue eyeliner.
Mostly-straight medium-legnth hair is razor-cut in messy layers, top layers dyed burgundy, the under layers are deep brunette.
The tattoos continue in a delicate line of beauty marks down each side of the back of her neck and extending along her shoulders.

Usually wears an olive-green lab coat and pants for work, her hair pulled up in a neat twist. Her off-duty clothes tend to be edgy, mostly black, silky, and cut close to the body. Standard footwear in either case are knee-length black boots with a slender 3” heel.

As an occasional treat for herself, Aeve indulges in smoking a thin chicory or organic pure-tobacco cigarette. Either one is difficult to find so she can't afford to have much of an addiction.

Occupation: Botanical Systems Engineer: she travels among twelve different space stations and several planetary outpost bases overseeing their systems for producing fresh food.

Hobbies: Include boxing and a single-person sport that she made up that includes aspects of martial arts and ‘walleyball’. She also enjoys reading or drawing.

Background: Aeve is American and single due to her nomadic lifestyle and job. Family is something she intends to get to eventually. She has an on-again off-again relationship with a star cruiser medical officer but it’s mostly off as they rarely see each other.

Aeve is friendly enough but it takes time for her to warm up to people.

[twilightblade]

Whoa, nice characters all.

I'd like to get into this one... Hmmm... pilot ok?

Whooo! EDIT:

Name: Shimei Altanis
Age: 17
Gender: female
Race: human
Occupation: pilot/astrogator
Appearance: Tall and powerfully built, she is often cursed as an amazon by others who cannot top her skills. Her ice-grey eyes and wildly curling, long blond hair make her stand out in a crowd even without her striking features. Three scars cross her left eye, like the claws of a large cat, and another scores her right cheek, but they only serve to enhance her charisma.
She usually wears a dark blue ships-uniform with grey trim and an astrogator's shooting star on the collar, and grey shipboots. At times she'll wear the cap of a naval officer.
Background: Born to a small gengineered family on a 3 g. (gravity) planet, all of whom went into some sort of military service, with a long tradition of serving in various sections of the military, Shimei knew from a young age what she wanted to go for, a fighter pilot in one of the small fast attack boats in the Navy. When she grew too tall to realize this dream, she began casting around for something else. In the Naval Academy on the planet, she found an aptitude for math, and a teacher took special interest in her and helped to her excell.
She graduated first in math and astrogation, and served aboard the R.M.A. Defiant for three cruises before the ship was destroyed by 5 alien raiders and she was captured along with several shipmates. The aliens were enemy (insert whatever name that comes up for them) cats, and as she was protecting the crew, she came off the worst, especially as she was the only surviving officer.
She managed to free the crew and herself, and took an attack boat from the alien ship, using her skills in astrogation to get them clear. She was given leave, and has only recently returned to a sort of semi-duty on the moon base.

[Kage Chaos]

Pilot is fine.

[Renos]

Hey do you mind if i join, and could i possibly be an alien, I can post a discription for you if it's okay,

[Kage Chaos]

That sounds fine.

Do you mean one of the enemies, or one of the allies?

[Renos]

one of the allies, unless you really need me to be a bad guy, umm heres the general description, if theres anything else you need to know just ask

Midas Sinen,
A race born on the sun, they are human in appearance. But can manipulate there body to form other things,(once they reach a certain age). Midas Sinen are heat and Radiation proof. They cannot stand Temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius or 288 Kelvin(I think, I’ll check on that at school) they are generally good fighters and not overly sociable, but once you’re a friend your protected for life.

[Foxee]

Renos, that is a COOL alien! Are they human in appearance just to adapt to being around us or is that sort of their default shape? Is there anything about their appearance that's a giveaway as to what they are?

[Renos]

Ummmm, yeah thats just the shape they adapt, and there eyes, they have one red and one gold eye, and there pupils tend to be different shaped.

I hope you don't mind but the character i'm using is one out of one of the novels i'm righting so her background will be similar to her originals. Okay i hope this is alright

Name: Zandra ‘Wolfkin’ Rose
Age: 22
Race: Midas Sinen

Appearance:
Wolfkin is human in appearance, her right eye is red some of her black hair falling over it covering it from view. Her left eye is gold, her pupils are an odd shape, a weird zigzag pattern. She wears a crimson long sleeved shirt with the right arm torn off to allow for the black leather glove that covers her cybotic arm(which is made of a special metal created by the Midas Sinen, it can be manipulated just like her body), over that she wears a black shirt with a navy blue strip on the left hand side, over that she wears a black leather top that is held together at the front by bits of red leather. She wears baggy black pants with a brown leather weaponry belt around her waist. A mask covers her face in an odd fashion. Starting at her right temple it cuts down just under her eye, continues going down to just under her nose then cuts across to half way down her left cheek, this covers a tattoo that was given to her while she was a POW. Other tattoos run down her left arm. Her right leg is also cybotic from mid thigh down.

Background:
Wolfkin lost majority her family when Sol Base 16(Heat proof building on the sun) was destroyed by unknown enemies. As Midas Sinen age quickly (are fully grown by age 10) she was accepted into the military by age 13, on her 16th birthday she was taken prisoner by an enemy force and tortured beyond anything she could ever speak of, Each tattoo on her arm is a reminder of the three years she spent in that hell hole. Soon after her escape she joined an underground resistance known as the Midas Hierarchy. Run by her older brother her only family member to survive the Sol Base Disaster. When she was twenty the other members of the Hierarchy lost there lives on the battle front after they had been hired out to help the alliance, she now lives to avenge her friends.

Occupation: Soldier/Mercenary/Engineer.

Hobbies: Building things.

[Kage Chaos]

Sounds good to me.

And allies are better anyway, most of the bad guys are going to be NPCs for now, unless somebody feels like playing a bad guy.

[twilightblade]

Oh, oh! I will! ;D Um...I'll try not to make him too smart I guess. Wouldn't want him killing anyone. That ok? Would also be an alien...from a crystal moon. Ok? I'll edit the description in if you all are fine with that.

[Kage Chaos]

You should just make him a 'comic relief' bad guy who messes up a lot, like Wile E. Coyote or something.

[twilightblade]

Sure, can do.

[Kage Chaos]

lol Sweet.

[splinteredchaos]

Is this one active, or has it been archived?


Also, is there any way we can get some more background story. Such as what time of intergalactic government is there? How did the war start, who was all involved? Where are the aliens coming from, and why?


Kage, your character doesn't make a ton of sense. A hacker is a profession typically reserved for the meek, shy, geeky types. Bounty hunters are the opposite. The job of a bounty hunter requires physical strength and agression. Why the sudden switch in professions, some sort of serious injury? Also where did the character learn the skills to become a hacker?

[Foxee]

You can't have brainy bounty hunters? They won't find their prey if they aren't intelligent.
I'd take issue with the profession of hacker being 'reserved' for any certain personality type, too. Why go according to stereotypes? I thought this made sense as necessity isn't just the mother of invention but also the change agent for many other things.

Just my 2 cents.

I think this RPG is just waiting for more members to join before it starts.

[twilightblade]

I see I forgot that I hadn't put up the alien bad guy's profile.


Name: Shatter Ice
Age: ...about 5 years old as humans reckon time. As a crystal being, he takes a looooong time to GROW UP. (He's an annoying brat, basically)
Gender: male
Race: Krystaze
Occupation: weapons supplier and maker
Appearance: A clear, faceted humanoid (they can slowly [like years] reshape themselves, and this was the best form for him to take). The color of his crystalline body can shift and change more quickly than his form, a day or two at most, so he has the appearance of 'clothing', and has colored in a face and 'eyes', although he can 'see' out of any of his facets. Right now, he is predominantly of an azure tint with black 'eyes' and 'hair'.
Background: Formed on the third moon out from the planet Krystaze and shaped to be an interface with humanoids. As is a part of all those of his race, he can shape rock/crystals into weapons that are very deadly and work in the vaccum of space. I need to mention that it is also very hard to shatter these weapons because they're not your usual crystal or stone. They're much like a plant of crystal, with some of the flexibility.

[Kage Chaos]

splinteredchaos said:

Kage, your character doesn't make a ton of sense. A hacker is a profession typically reserved for the meek, shy, geeky types. Bounty hunters are the opposite. The job of a bounty hunter requires physical strength and agression. Why the sudden switch in professions, some sort of serious injury? Also where did the character learn the skills to become a hacker?

foxee said:

You can't have brainy bounty hunters? They won't find their prey if they aren't intelligent.
I'd take issue with the profession of hacker being 'reserved' for any certain personality type, too. Why go according to stereotypes? I thought this made sense as necessity isn't just the mother of invention but also the change agent for many other things.

Just my 2 cents.

I think this RPG is just waiting for more members to join before it starts.

He was a bounty hunter before becoming a hacker. He both learned and used his skills in hacking to assist him in his prior profession (bounty hunting). Being able to hack allowed him to get information that he might not otherwise be able to get.

(Thanks, Foxee, for being open minded!)

The RPG is open, and yes, we're basically just waiting to have a decent amount of characters.

[twilightblade]

Hai! Indeed, counting doubles and bad guys....there's only five of us and six characters. But isn't that a good number of characters and people?

[Foxee]

I agree...I can't wait for this one to start!

Yvw, Kage. ;D

[Kage Chaos]

Yeah, now that I look again, we should have enough to start the story.

splinteredchaos, you gonna make a character?

I'll start the story as soon as I have a bit more time. Should be fairly soon.