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Field Squad “Ajax”:
Managers: [“W. Bakker”]
Operators: ["C. Karmyle", "F. v.d. Weshuizen", "M. Oyeyemi", "S. Gill", "T. Coghan", "Y. Belyayeva"]
Contractor: "Senator *******"
Deployment: ["AL", "MR"]


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Hey fellas, glad you stopped by. Having played through some vidya games recently (CoDMW, Max Payne, Escape from Tarkov, and a few others) I have had my mind oversaturated with certain ideas, themes, thoughts, etc. mainly regarding Private Military Companies, colloquially known simply as Mercenaries. This is the result.

The Premise

Contrary to the small blurb at the top, you won’t necessarily be formerly a former government employee of sorts for your military experience. You’ll be any sort of former badass, probably as mentioned above a former soldier, police officer, or something else, but just as easily you might have been a nutjob in some political paramilitary, a gang thug, or perhaps a rebel of some sort; so long as you have relevant experience to PMCs you will be suitable.

Officially you are employees working for Ares Solutions, a company officially based in Switzerland doing simple security contracts protecting celebrities and the likes. Officially. Journalists from all countries have mysteriously disappeared often never to reemerge after starting investigations on Ares Solutions, but before they do they have many allegations. Some claim they are an accountability-free strongarm for nations around the world from America to Russia to China, these conflicting claims all apparently having some credible proofs. Ares Solutions has been in warzones and other armed hotspots from the Middle East, to South-East Asia, Latin America, and even South-Eastern Europe and Africa. All sorts of specialists are required for the company’s clandestine work: cyberwarfare specialists, medic, private investigators, snipers, squad machines gunners, trackers, and others. Whether it was because you were to be court martialed for a crime you didn’t commit, because you just wanted the great money, or because you didn’t pass the psych evaluation for some other soldier-boys you applied to there is a reason you were sent an offer from A.S. Inc. which you accepted.



Posting Expectations

This RP is advanced. That means any post requires at least three paragraphs, with quality & detail. It is largely going to be action oriented, although this will vary on your character being from about 45% on average to as high as 95%. There will be intense violence and darker themes so obviously be 18+. I expect everyone to give me at least one post a week. If you cannot make that deadline, then warn me and give me the timeframe in which you think you can post. If you fail to warn me and make a post that’s one strike, if you warn me but fail to meet the deadline then that’s two strikes. Three strikes and you’re out. BUT! I’m also cognizant shit really does happen, so if you manage to for four weeks keep up the good posting then you can get a strike removed in a sort of “redemption” system. This might seem harsh, but on RPG I’ve seen far too many RPs die of the first or second round of posting after one person delays it or similar stuff, and this is with the aim of preventing us getting stuck because of one bad apple spoiling the whole barrel.

There will be in addition to traditional RPG posts many “collabs”, wherein we write in a google doc for more fast paced action scenes or dialogue just to not have a single conversation or a firefight with a single MG nest take a whole month to get through. In fact, at the beginning of the RP you will have two posts at the same time; you will begin at the same time being deployed to your first assignment as new hires, while also working on a post where your character has their “interview” to give me and other players some first hand insight into your character.

The RP does certainly have a degree of realism. You will run out of ammo if you spray and pray too much, and if you go leeroy-jenkins at a dude with an HMG you’ll end up as a fine red mist. However I will describe this RP as a modern day action oriented neo-noir adventure movie. Your characters are badasses and at times will get the equivalent of bullet time. When you go up against enemies of equal training/experience to you then whereas they will in effect be as though rolling a d100, while you will be as if rolling a d100 and then adding a d10. Yes, dice will have some effect, but it will be really minimal and behind the scenes with player choices having about 10 times the power of luck in determining any outcomes.

Co-GMs

So, I would very much like co-GMs. I don’t need them for now, since we’re below eight players. However to manage more than that I will need a co-GM. Such a person will be somewhere between the developer of the RP (me, the GM) and a participant (most of the players). They will both make it and be in it It won’t be like a second job, but you will have some responsibilities: reading more stuff about militaria, writing settings, introducing new characters, possibly even GMing individual fight scenes and such, helping find good music and visuals, helping other applicants create characters or dealing with players being a little bit naughty, dealing with the parts of the RP dictated by dice, helping with general housekeeping/bureaucracy et cetera. At least one of the co-GM characters will be a Field Manager.

OOC Rules

Right, there’s no “real” rules. Don’t be a dick OOC, don’t meta/powergame, don’t start conflating IC with OOC. You can always question one of my decisions indefinitely, but until I agree with you that what I did is wrong my fat GM dick will stay on the table and the decision is in effect. Don’t blogpost (post off topic shit) too much. Cool little updates and memes are fine, but when there’s more off topic chatter than on topic chatter I’ll kindly nudge everyone because there’s better places for that. All these rules also apply to the discord, which is below:
discord.gg/9tDSsHD

Note, the discord isn’t absolutely mandatory, but its sure as heck very useful for instant communications and I'd really, really prefer it if you did join the server rather than not.

Inspirational Media

These are just some things that I think will give a good feel for the RP after going through them. Maybe if you’re on the fence about joining this will help you decide whether you want to or not, or if you do and you have writer’s block then just have a gander through here. Oh, and I will keep updating this .


Your Application

Your character sheet will sort of be done as if an IC document, the dossier Ares would keep of your character in their office basements behind a very thick lock inside a very thick safe. Of course it’s not the most important thing to make this super formal in universe looking, but at least give an effort.


Outside the dossier you can add stuff like a character theme song to help me and others get the feel for the character. Copy-paste the sheet from here

Please, ask me questions, ask for help, give suggestions. If you’re having any issues I’d be more than happy to sit down and work stuff out with, if you have an idea you can’t get through on to the CS I’d be more than happy to even sit down and write chunks of it for you, if your idea shows promise. Communication is everything, and with that I can’t wait to see your applications!
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Theme Song
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@Lord Shaxx Approved, pick from one of three of Hades, Orpheus or Aeneas for your callsign
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@Starboard Watch hey man, do I still got your interest in this?
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Theme Song
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@Starboard Watch hey man, do I still got your interest in this?


Yeah sorry I've been awfully busy. Working on a character now.
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@Starboard Watch absolutely no rush (I'm hoping to start the coming friday so plenty of time), just tryna keep tabs. If you have the time I'd recommend joining the discord server just for instant communication
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Actual Theme Song

But here's a more joking one.
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Hello.

Hopefully this character works. Feedback welcome.


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What the hell are you fighting for?
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@Andreyich

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@Sam Quint a great sheet, which is why I kind of feel terrible having to tell you this: the continuation of this RP is somewhat dubious, however if it does continue it'll be a while before your character can jump in since we're in the middle of an operation

however if I do close this I'll very soon follow it up with two slightly more focused and rigorous RPs about PMCs, one focusing on Blackwater Inc. you can likely cash in on with a slight rework of that dude if its any consolation.
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@Sam Quint a great sheet, which is why I kind of feel terrible having to tell you this: the continuation of this RP is somewhat dubious, however if it does continue it'll be a while before your character can jump in since we're in the middle of an operation

however if I do close this I'll very soon follow it up with two slightly more focused and rigorous RPs about PMCs, one focusing on Blackwater Inc. you can likely cash in on with a slight rework of that dude if its any consolation.


Cant win them all. I will definitely be in if this doesnt move.
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@Tsar Gatto
we're done, I take it?
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