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@Silverwind Blade sweet!

And yeah it was a coin flip for the gender. Even chose a unisex name for that reason.
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The first IC Post is up!

Nothing too mind-bending to begin with, just a chance for everyone to make a short situational introduction post; your characters are free to chat to each other before Silver arrives and while waiting, or to just leap right in and follow him aboard.
Once we get a round of posts up, I'll post one leading us right into the briefing and building up a bit more steam.
Enjoy, and I hope it's a good one; wanted to start off a bit light-hearted and fluffy with some minor situational humour before leaping into the drama (actual drama, not the internet kind), suspense, and action!

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I have work for the next 6 or so hours from the time this post is made, but I am going to be getting my post out in under 12 hours. Promise!
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That's okay, I'm on a late finishing shift myself. I'm reading this on my break, and I'll have three and a bit hours once I go back. Finishing at 10pm D:
Will likely roll into bed once I get home, haha
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Stumbled over the finish line! \o/

I also will mention I am currently on an iPad instead of a pc due to the fact my new rig's motherboard is faulty and I will be dealing with that over the next few weeks. So if my posts seem small, I apologize. o7
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So, I got bored and started writing away for a gap that I think you guys have in this RP- I'd absolutely love to get involved if it's possible! I think you need another cool cat around here, so here's a lion I made earlier :)

It's a little TBC in places so forgive me for that- it's my first properly created char in about a year and a half!



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So, I got bored and started writing away for a gap that I think you guys have in this RP- I'd absolutely love to get involved if it's possible! I think you need another cool cat around here, so here's a lion I made earlier :)

It's a little TBC in places so forgive me for that- it's my first properly created char in about a year and a half!



Love him, all looks perfectly fine to me, and I'll be happy to approve him. Feel free to copy your sheet into the characters section, and I'll update the OP with his name and deets later today. Really glad to have you with us, and see you again too! You're free to post in the IC as soon as you like too.
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Cheers! I'll get to work on getting stuck in! :)
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Everyone else’s post makes me feel so pitiful with the size of mine v.v I know there needs to be one with the smallest but I can’t help but feel self conscious XD
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Everyone else’s post makes me feel so pitiful with the size of mine v.v I know there needs to be one with the smallest but I can’t help but feel self conscious XD


Size doesn't always matter- in some ways your character is a smaller target! :p

Feel free to chat with Max (anyone)- he's blunt but a good laugh!
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I think that's a full round of posts, so I'll get a new IC post up today or tomorrow - great so far, everyone ^^
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I've been re-watching a mecha show from the late 90's that I started a long time ago but - for whatever reason - never finished watching.
The aesthetic of the mecha is very much up my alley; a near-future/modern dayish setting with smaller mecha that have mostly conventional weaponry. The series itself is pretty okay, but nothing to write home about. If nothing else, the main character is as stimulating as tepid bathwater and has the emotional range of a sponge, and there's a lot of political muttering alongside a lot of mystical mumbo-jumbo, so it does get bogged down (there's more than one conversation about grain exports...!)
Nonetheless, Gasaraki isn't actually too bad, and most of the animation has aged okay, especially for a late-90's TV anime.
The main reason I bring it up is because it's mecha designs are by the same gentleman who did the majority of designs for VOTOMS and thus directly influenced GEARs. I think the cockpit design for the 'ISHTAR' from Gasaraki is pretty dead-on for the amount of space and general configuration of a GEAR



There's also this image of a VOTOMs pre-production model, which is about the size I picture GEARs being, if not a little bigger. I know it doesn't quite scan with the weapons as statted, but we can stretch our imaginations. I just picture them being fast, small, mobile and with a range and ease of movement that's virtually equivalent to human, while still being sizable enough.



Hopefully that'll help for a bit of immersion!
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Everyone else’s post makes me feel so pitiful with the size of mine v.v I know there needs to be one with the smallest but I can’t help but feel self conscious XD


You can try things like 'I am unable to can' instead of 'I can't' or just add some unnecessarily long descriptions of minor things.

Or stop being self conscious, but that is usually pretty tricky to do.

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...and there's a lot of political muttering alongside a lot of mystical mumbo-jumbo, so it does get bogged down (there's more than one conversation about grain exports...!)...


You say that, but still people liked the prequels so *shrugs*.

Hell in Tiberium Sun I can say there is a lot of politics and quasi-religious things in the Brotherhood of Nod in between the power struggles of a splintered faction, murdering the leader of a neutral faction and framing it on your foe, weird green crystals from space, a weird blue orb (also from space and with vague space prophecies), and the time a bald man almost genetically modified all carbon-based life to be tiberium-based instead with the World Altering Missile because of said vague space prophecy. There was so much backstabbing and questionable plot elements, but I loved the cheesy scifi B-movie quality of it.

There was also this bit shortly after the war where a Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform (C.A.B.A.L) realized that the failure of it's prime directive was the result of human error so it logically decided to remove the human factor by conscripting humans into it's cyborg army. This obviously was not well received by the Brotherhood and GDI who decided to team up for this one before they got back to killing each other again some 13 years during the Third Tiberium War (C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, which I am currently playing through with a mod...that makes Tiberium Wars more like Tiberium Sun. Maybe I should just be playing Tiberium Sun)

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That aside, I get what you're saying a bit more now. Now to await the next IC post and maybe...maybe do some interactions.

That aside... aside. I now feel like delaying some of my responsibilities to play some more Tiberium Wars, see if I can finish the last few GDI missions of driving off some Tiberium lovin' aliens off the Earth after they were bamboozled into invading in the first place by the Brotherhood as predicted by the earlier vague space prophecy. Then I can get back to my comfort zone with the Brotherhood's campaign. Express some religious fanaticism, do some morally questionable things, and serve the Prophet without question. "One vision. One purpose. Peace through power!"
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Hell in Tiberium Sun I can say there is a lot of politics and quasi-religious things in the Brotherhood of Nod in between the power struggles of a splintered faction, murdering the leader of a neutral faction and framing it on your foe, weird green crystals from space, a weird blue orb (also from space and with vague space prophecies), and the time a bald man almost genetically modified all carbon-based life to be tiberium-based instead with the World Altering Missile because of said vague space prophecy. There was so much backstabbing and questionable plot elements, but I loved the cheesy scifi B-movie quality of it.

That aside, I get what you're saying a bit more now. Now to await the next IC post and maybe...maybe do some interactions.


Oh, I have no intrinsic problems with either politics or supernatural/mystical elements in mecha anime or sci-fi in general. I mean, the Universal Century timline of Mobile Suit Gundam has a substantial amount of political elements and some quasi-mystical elements with the evolution of humans into Newtypes, and it's regarded as the originator of the 'real robot' genre, and holds the same cultural position in the Japanese consciousness as Star Trek does in the western one.
With Gasaraki the problem is more that they tried to include all those elements but didn't really do a good job of tying them all together into the plot, and it ends up feeling like a lot of ideas that were jotted down but not really linked together.

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Thank you both~ I like expressing myself to avoid worry or frustration from building up. I fully accept I most likely I just didn’t have a lot of inspiration for my opener.

I am confident in my own skills, and very keen on improving them!

*anime charges up, preparing to release it in her next post!*
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New IC is up, lot more to reply to and take in there, hopefully it'll provoke some discussion, and give you all more to talk about with either one another, or directly to ask Silverwind. Also plenty of places to take your characters from there too. If you want to ask Silver something directly, I'll respond right away, rather than waiting for another round of IC. That'll go up in a weeks' time moving everyone along all together onto the next big 'scene', which will likely be the tuning of our GEARs, the transfer to the allied ship and us getting ready to launch.
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Awesome! I like the upcoming stuff to come.

Just to check a potential typo- its the 303rd, not the 33rd just to check? I might have put my stuff wrong or not, I'm not sure :P ]

Gonna crank out a post now- feel free to start interacting with Max in any order.
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Just to check a potential typo- its the 303rd, not the 33rd just to check? I might have put my stuff wrong or not, I'm not sure :P ]


It is, indeed, the 33rd, much to my eternal shame <commits sudoku>

Once I come up with a name I actually like, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to remember that than just the number.

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I vote Danger Strangers.
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