[OOC] Mass Effect: Wanted

[Halo]

Zombiedude101 - I have a couple of ideas for characters, but one of them is actually a human researcher/academic (the other one I quite like is a volus who would act in a largely mercantile/procurement/organisational role for the group, though I'd need to do research on the lore to see how possible/likely that would be). If I go forward with the academic, would you be interested in making it so our two characters know eachother from childhood or some such?

[Dervish]

Don't get too ahead of yourself Halo; Since I'm taking 8 characters (that aren't returning), there's always a chance that players with a pre-established history between characters won't be accepted. Feel free to talk about it with people, but be prepared to have your sheet stand alone just in case.

That said good sheets that don't make the initial 8 will be put in reserve to fill spots of dropped players, so future planning isn't too crazy!

Anyways guys, I am off on vacation! See you in a few days, try not totear the place up too badly while I'm gone. :D

[Halo]

Dervish said
Don't get too ahead of yourself Halo; Since I'm taking 8 characters (that aren't returning), there's always a chance that players with a pre-established history between characters won't be accepted. Feel free to talk about it with people, but be prepared to have your sheet stand alone just in case.That said good sheets that don't make the initial 8 will be put in reserve to fill spots of dropped players, so future planning isn't too crazy!Anyways guys, I am off on vacation! See you in a few days, try not totear the place up too badly while I'm gone. :D

I was thinking that it's worth setting it up, and can be removed later if one of the characters is rejected and one accepted, that's all. The suggested connection is merely a childhood friendship, after all. I'll keep that in mind, though. Enjoy your holiday! :)

[Voltaire]

Alright guys, who's buying the keg?

[Halo]

I know Dervs is now away, but for those who have RP'd with him before - do you think he'd be okay with the submission of multiple character sheets, even if you're only intending to play one of them, the point being that he can select between those you submit for which one he'd like you to play (assuming you're accepted)? I may well change my mind before the 28th but I have two/three different characters ideas and I'm equally willing to play any of them, so could I just put a CS together for each and submit them all for consideration?

[Hank]

You could write several sheets but I'd submit only one if I were you. Keep the others in reserve, so to speak, so you can whip them out if necessary.

[Zombiedude101]

Halo said
Zombiedude101 - I have a couple of ideas for characters, but one of them is actually a human researcher/academic (the other one I quite like is a volus who would act in a largely mercantile/procurement/organisational role for the group, though I'd need to do research on the lore to see how possible/likely that would be). If I go forward with the academic, would you be interested in making it so our two characters know eachother from childhood or some such?

Not a bad idea, I'm fine with rolling along with it assuming we're both accepted into the RP.

EDIT: Alright, just finished my app here. Lemme know what you think.

[Dervish]

Hey gang, I'm about to depart to the Rocky Mountains for a few days, so I'll see you all when I get back!

Oh, if you guys are done your sheets and are feeling restless, feel free to start brainstorming ideas for a character loyalty mission. They shoukd be a fun divergence from the main plot from time to time. ;)

Anyways! I will see you all soon! Now, to fight me a bear...

[Sundered Echo]

Enjoy the trip Derv!

I expect many stories of defeated Bears and death defying battles with the elements when you return!

[Voltaire]

Woah woah wait wat?! You're coming to the US? Y U NO TELL ME?

[Archangel89]

I'm almost finished with my app I'm trying to get my equipment powers and talents down

[Dervish]

Voltaire said
Woah woah wait wat?! You're coming to the US? Y U NO TELL ME?

If you'll look at a map, between the Alberta-BC border, you'll notice something peculiar.

[Voltaire]

I don't care what the maps say, everybody knows that the Rockies and Appalachians only exist in the US. We invented them.

[RainDash]

Voltaire said
I don't care what the maps say, everybody knows that the Rockies and Appalachians only exist in the US. We invented them.

As a resident of the area near the Rockies, I can 100% vouch for this being true.

[Legion X51]

Profile Reconstruction Complete.
Subject: 'The Enforcer'

Name: Henrik Kjell Andersson, known to the criminal world as 'The Enforcer'

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 43

Class: Soldier (Shock Trooper, really)

Appearance:

Backstory

Henrik Kjell Andersson was born on the 18th of May, 2135 CE to Swedish-Norwegian parents, Alfred and Lena Andersson in the city of Oslo on Earth. His father Alfred was a successful arms dealer and gun-runner in the era before the Prothean data cache was unearthed on Mars, whilst his mother ran a drugs cartel known as 'The Firm' in and around Norway - Henrik, as a result, was surrounded by crime and the underworld of the human race from a very early age. When Henrik was but 4 years old, his father was arrested by police after a botched gun-running operation near the port of Narvik, which left 4 police officers dead and Alfred paralysed from the waist-down. Henrik's mother, concerned that the young boy would be targeted by the Norwegian police, sent Henrik to live with his aunt and uncle in Trondheim. Six weeks later, his mother was almost killed by a rival cartel in a hit that was also targeted at Henrik himself. His aunt and uncle hid the truth of his parents' fates from him for years afterwards, trying to keep the young boy from becoming the man his father was, or worse.

Henrik had a fairly normal childhood in Trondheim; though he knew his aunt and uncle had been entrusted with his care because life at home was dangerous, he didn't know what his parents had done for work, nor did he know what had happened to them after he had moved to Trondheim. His formative years were spent largely at home, playing computer games and hanging out around some of the kids he knew from school. He worked hard in his education - though Henrik was no academic, he was good at practical tasks such as art, design & technology and also chemistry, and he was exceptional at sports. Rugby and football were bread and butter to Henrik as he entered secondary school, and he grew to be a strapping young man - some 6' 3" tall and often sporting a full beard and moustache.

At the age of 15, Henrik asked his aunt and uncle to tell him the truth about his parents. Reluctantly, they told him; his father was in prison, serving time for murder, tax evasion, encouraging prostitution and several counts of armed robbery, assault and battery. He was in hospital still after his injuries from the Narvik operation, but there was little to no chance he'd ever be a free man - he was ineligible for parole for 50 years. Henrik's mother was also serving time in prison: a 25-year sentence for murder and for crimes relating to the operation of a drug cartel... Henrik seethed at the authorities. They had taken away his parents from him and made their lives a misery, whilst fatcats in the governments of the world gorged themselves upon the profits of illegal activities with no consequence. Bankers, lawyers, CEOs, all were the same - people who lived off the proceeds of others' misery. The irony was not lost upon the young man.

At 18, Henrik left school for university, where he obtained a degree in creative writing the University of Oslo in 2156 CE. By this time, the data cache on Mars had been discovered, and the First Contact War had already been declared by the new alien race that humanity had encountered. Henrik cared little for the 'turians' or whatever they chose to call themselves, and even less about the war. Several of his school friends had joined the Alliance military, and two had been killed fighting the turians on Shanxi, but again, Henrik didn't care. He had unfinished business to take care of, especially with the Godz, who were the cartel who ordered the hit on Henrik's mother. Arming himself with his father's old weapons and procuring a set of armour from a family friend, Henrik began his foray into the criminal underworld with brutal force. His moniker was 'The Enforcer', and he lived up to his sobriquet. One day in April 2158 CE, the Godz were staging a drugs transfer between them and the Raiders, another gang. The leader of the Godz, Enrique Marmasellas, was present at the deal - exactly the moment Henrik knew he had to strike. Leading a team of some 10 members of his mother's cartel, Henrik gatecrashed the deal and proceeded to kill no fewer than 20 members of both the Godz and the Raiders, before making off with some 750,000 credits worth of drugs and banknotes. The police arrived, but Henrik had already made his getaway - The Enforcer had had his revenge.

Henrik began taking jobs on the black market, but he only just about scraped a living between 2158-2161 CE. Before long, he felt as if his future lay beyond Earth, and in the wider galaxy that humanity had just discovered was out there. All of these alien races had been met, and with them came new opportunities. Henrik left for the station of Omega in 2162, whereupon he discovered that just like on Earth, the wider galaxy had its underworld. And it was an underworld that provided Henrik with lots of work. Henrik's line of work was bloody, dirty money: assassinations, heists, bank robberies, you name it, if it involved killing people, Henrik was good at it. He obtained a set of Titan Heavy Armour from a contact in Rosenkov Materials, and a heavy machine gun, which was an M-76 Revenant modded for an even faster rate of fire which Henrik named 'The Reaper'. He was often employed as heavy muscle on jobs that required it - even those in the bigger mercenary groups came to fear the sight of a heavily-armoured human packing heavier weaponry, spraying hellfire down on whichever poor bastards had been earmarked to stop him. Henrik liked his new position - that was, until he and his squad were set up against R'myr Security Corporation during an arms raid on an RSC depot. Henrik and his 'crew', the Red Devils (named by the leader, Tom Stanway, whose ancestors had been British paratroopers) looked as if they'd met their match in the RSC troopers, with not even Henrik's fearsome firepower able to subdue the slippery RSC squad. One by one, the Red Devils were taken down by accurate fire from the RSC troopers until it was Henrik and Stanway left. Stanway urged Henrik to surrender, hoping at the very least to save some of his crew, but Henrik was having none of it, and hosed down one of the RSC squad who was careless enough to leave their cover. However, at the same time, Stanway was caught full in the chest by a burst from an assault rifle, and fell the ground, dead.
Out of nowhere, Henrik was flattened (an impressive feat in and of itself) by a flying kick from one of the RSC troopers - an asari. Struggling to his feet, Henrik resolved at the very least to not go down without a fight and prepared for hand-to-hand combat. He knew he was on the disadvantage against a biotic, but it was too late to worry about that now as he lunged at the asari trooper. She rolled out of the way before kicking him square in the midsection, but she underestimated The Enforcer's speed, who grabbed the leg and wrenched the asari towards him before giving her a solid right hook to the side of the head and throwing her against a wall. Visibly dazed, the trooper got to her feet and threw a biotic power (which one, Henrik had no idea) that threw him away from her and knocked him to the ground. However, he was surrounded by no fewer than five of them by now.

He reluctantly surrendered, but instead of taking him prisoner, the RSC squad fell back, taking their injured comrades with them, as well as the body of Stanway. It transpired that the depot assault was a set-up: RSC had lured the Red Devils into a trap with the express intention of killing Tom Stanway, and Henrik was of no interest to them. There were no guns. Thoroughly confused, but thanking his lucky stars, Henrik took a moment to gather his wits about him, and made his way back to Omega, whereupon he immediately threw himself back into criminality. It was his first brush with RSC, but it would not be his last - and RSC proved not only to be an enemy, but also a contractor. Private security companies such as RSC and the up-and-coming Siame Industries required mercenaries to do the really dirty work - mercenaries like Henrik. Over the next few years, Henrik picked up contacts in all manner of places. The Lotus, an asari politician. The Widowmaker, a former mercenary and RSC trooper. Ilya Kovlov, a human arms trafficker and all-round 'nutcase'.

The Enforcer works for them all. Though he is no longer the hot-headed young man he once was, Henrik Andersson is still a force to be reckoned with. So when Kovlov asked him to oversee operations in and around Cartagena Station, The Enforcer packed his bags and shipped himself off to the Terminus Systems. There he discovered the cause of Kovlov's issues: Siame Industries.

Siame just got themselves a dangerous new enemy.

Equipment:

Modified M-76 Revenant Light Machine Gun:


M-6 Carnifex Heavy Pistol:


KM Combat Knife:


Heavy Colossus Armour

Powers:
Combat Mastery
Adrenaline Rush

Talents:
Overkill
Assault Training
Assault Rifles (really? The Revenant is an LMG, not an assault rifle...)
Combat Armour
First Aid
Fitness

"I am here. If you do not wish for my services, then I will take myself elsewhere."

Theme:

[Archangel89]

Profile Reconstruction Complete
Subject: The Avatar

Name: Roku Luut "Avatar"

Race: Drell

Gender: Male

Age: 35

Class: Drell Hunter (Vanguard subclass)

Appearance:

Background:

Roku was born on Kahje in the year 2143 CE. From the time he was born he was groomed to be a political assassin for key hanar representatives on the Citadel, since he was born with biotic abilities. For the better half of his childhood he was trained by the very best that the hanar could buy; combat training from asari commandos and turian soldiers, schooling and the latest Bio-Amp and Omni-tool developed by salarians, and in-depth knowledge of the ins and outs of the galactic economy by volus traders. By the time he reached the age of eighteen Roku had become a well oiled tool for the hanar to use.

On the day after he turned eighteen he was immediately sent to the Citadel where he quickly began carrying out orders of major hanar members, protecting them at key conferences and speaking arrangements, silently eliminating threats to hanar legislature, even taking part in coups on and off the Citadel. For five years Roku lived the life of a dutiful drell living up to his end of the Compact serving the needs of the hanar and for those few years he was happy. One day while taking a routine assassination of a local "street-gang" leader under the control of a volus councilman, Roku walked into a trap which was designed to be the death of him. Unaware that the councilman had hired a group of krogan mercenaries who's soul purpose was to eliminate Roku.

Roku barely escaped having to rely on very taxing biotics which brought a great deal attention to himself which brought C-SEC into a full fledged investigation into the activities of the hanar council-members that employed Roku. When he returned to his apartment at the Citadel a message was waiting for him informing him that he was no longer in the employ of the hanar government and that he was to return all of his equipment including his Omni-tool and Bio-amp and that failure to comply would bring the fullest diplomatic and criminal sanctions upon him.

Now facing something that he had never had to face before, Roku quickly boarded a ship and left the Citadel in search of a life beyond that which had been laid out for him. Roku soon found his way to Omega and into the employ of Aria as a low level enforcer, however he quickly rose through the ranks as he became a better assassin. Over the next six years as he more and more proficient in his craft and he actually began earning his own money through Aria and her contacts Roku began to revel in the life of an assassin for hire and soon after his thirtieth birthday Roku disappeared from Aria's radar.

Soon after tales began to surface around of a mysterious group of assassins that were taking the underworld of Omega one crimelord at a time. This group with no name and led by a shadowy figure who's only name was Avatar began working their way up the ranks of Omega, although it wasn't until one of Aria's lieutenants showed up dead at her doorstep that she began to take notice. For four and a half years Avatar and Aria traded kills which left the streets of Omega in a state of constant war. With his confidence, as well as his arrogance, at an all time high Roku gathered his best combatants and stormed Afterlife in the hopes to finally put an end to Aria's reign. As Roku and Aria squared off it was clear that Roku was no match and was quickly subdued, but before Aria could finish Roku off he escaped and quickly made it off world.
Roku was left beaten and bruised charted a course to the last place he could think that would harbor someone with his set of skills, Cartagena Station, where he has spent the last six months. While his contacts are not as encompassing as they were on Omega, Roku has been able to scrounge up a few contacts although he has not gone back into assassinations.

Equipment:

Weapons:

M-9 Tempest
M-27 Scimitar Assualt Shotgun
M-92 Mantis Sniper Rifle

Grenades:

Cluster/Flashbang-(if the Cluster is too much)

Bio-Amp:

Solaris Amp

Omni-Tool:

Logic Arrest Tool

Ammo:

Incendary Ammo

Powers:

Pull
Biotic Charge
Shockwave
Nova
Throw

Talents:

Medicine
First Aid
Assault Training
Fitness
Assault Mastery
Stasis

[Sixsmith]

I love Mass Effect so much and would love to join.

I'll whip up a character, but I'm not getting my hopes high. I 'accidentally' skipped the step where I had to convince myself to join an Advanced roleplay; lack of confidence has a lot to do with it, but I don't want to ramble. I don't think confining myself to Casual (the infamous 'high-casual') is a great way to grow as a roleplayer.

There is a distinct lack of Salarians, my absolute favorite race, so I'm hoping I can rummage something up that'll be logical to the story line and compelling as a character. Gonna be drilling in the research, but expect the CS to be up and spiffy before the 28th. Hopefully, it's up to par. I'll be lurking in the meantime, just to get a feel of characters, etc.

[Crya]

All these good characters, makes me nervous about getting accepted...

[RainDash]

You're not the only one. o.o
They're so long and impressive...

[Archangel89]

Something has just occurred to me...I don't think that there are any krogans being applied for. Odd