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Team Lead

Skye Rosalind Lyons - Queen - FourtyTwo
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Lights/Mediums

Sam Dalton- Chaos - LadyAmber
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Pink

Mediums:

-Ebrima Arendse- Boaro- Starlance
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Burnt Orange

Heavies:

Freya Kaantario - Frigga - BigPapaBelilal
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White

Chuck Simmons- Boomer (plus Duke) - LadyAmber
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Dark Olive

Oliver Black - Tiny Nord - Jamesyco
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Crimson




OLD CHARACTERS:

Xander Clarke- Glitch - Awesomoman64

Mateo Saceda - Jaguar - Theyra

Asim Badir- Ogre - ReusableSword

Iller Boxer- Stafford - PerfectThought

Michele Amélie Moreau- Hornet - Wayward
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WE GO AGAIN

APPLY ON REQUEST

We're accepting applications- if you haven't seen the Interest Check then the setup for a near-future, slightly wacky military RP is below.

THE STORY SO FAR

Raven Squad is led by Skye Rosalind Lyons, and rotates the team with new operatives, ranging from lightweight infiltrators to heavy hitting juggernauts, with more than a bit of comedy ensuing. The team is an elite task force with multinational members and origins, and every member of the team is hardened and elite in what they do. Following a data recovery mission in Austria, and the follow up to chase down a high ranking officer in Artemis Group, a shadowy anarcho-militant group with nefarious aims. Since then, the team have relocated from Corsica to New Zealand, and a new rotation has joined.

Prologue Part 1: Wildspitze, Austria

Prologue Part 2: Ilha de Santo Antão, Cape Verde

The team embarked on a mission to assault a cargo ship stranded in the desert- and interrupt a high stakes arms deal in Aralsk, Kazakhstan. After stopping the deal, the team's drone was hacked and unceremoniously, Raven were hit hard- and fought off a counterattack, safely ensuring nuclear material was safely recovered.

In the aftermath and looking for revenge due to their drone hack, Raven attended a billionaire's ball in Singapore hosted by Vale Systems CEO, Pavel Andros- an associate of Artemis who was responsible for the hack. After interrogating him and hacking his systems, the team escaped a very James Bond-esque party in an elaborate fashion.

Following this, the team split into two- one to attack a drugs lab off the coast of Colombia, supporting the revenge for one of its members and to capture a possible Artemis Group leader, whilst the other team raided a observatory high in Chilean Patagonia, containing the controls for a possible satellite hacking superweapon. Both teams succeeded- albeit Skye Lyons discovering her doppelganger before extracting with the satellite core.

Upon return, the team has been interrupted by Skye's doppelganger once more- in fact, an original genetic copy of Skye, called Rose. She's jumping from body to body of Skye's original body using a neural uplink device, making her able to effectively die over and over again and "respawn" into a new body of identical genetic composition to Skye's, every time. After a tense standoff, the team have found the right Skye, and are fighting off a heavy invasion of Artemis Group soldiers who have followed Rose's lead to the base.

After a tight escape from Artemis forces, Skye has escaped dramatically from the team in addition after a stopover in Tokyo, taking a mystery route and leaving the rest of their team at the bottom of the barrel, licking their wounds with a new team leader, Adam Kajtanowicz in Finland- no Skye, Raven in shambles, Spectre recovered by Artemis and worse still, the fact that Artemis are planning something even worse. With new intelligence coming in that Rose's blood has been used to enfuse the drug the team found earlier with a high lethality into a neurotoxin compound, they're on deployment to Marrakesh, Morocco with a new infiltrator, medium operative and support from Blue Sword to find a scientist involved in the programme of spawning Skye, who may be invaluable to stopping Artemis and their terrifying plan.

On the other side of the world in Nagoya, Japan, Skye has found an old contact and called in a favour- using her identical appearance to Rose to break into a Vale Systems facility and with it, finding dozens of Rose's bodies- and an intelligence goldmine. After literally stealing a dead Rose out of a plastic bag and escaping the skyscraper, Skye has certainly left Artemis bruised, but time will tell how far they can go.

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Background

Raven Squad is a variant on an RP idea I've had for years, focussing on a military / spy-fi RP that takes influence from a range of sources. It's bombastic, over the top, ridiculous...and definitely an RP that lends itself to not being too serious while having a teeny bit of grounding. Trying to save the world isn't ever going to look totally realistic, right?

Taking influence from everything from an awful lot of video games and films- Titanfall to MGS, Rainbow Six to Arma and Bad Company among many others- with a sprinkle of a little insanity on top and a teeny bit of grounding to set up a near-future foe, this RP isn't exactly focussed on absolute tactical precision nor complete fantastical elements. It's hard to describe but if you're somewhere between The Expendables, MGS, Overwatch and Rainbow Six, it's roughly that with around the right amount of silly and serious and a dynamic team of elite misfits.

This RP is a reboot of an old RP! https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/187468-raven-squad-an-eccentric-military-spy-fi-rp/ic

The Setup:

Raven Squad (RS) is a mysterious task force, working against the forces of global terrorist groups in the near future (an unspecified date 20 or 30 years from now) who often who are armed with quite advanced technology- or nefarious political aims. Al-Qaeda it isn't, so in come our operatives to deal with the anarchy. In a world where mechs are prototypes, exoskeletons, jump-packs, optical cloaking and various other technologies are around the corner, the tide of warfare is changing...and Raven is there to stop the worst happening.

Raven Squad have access to that technology, and six of the most elite operatives that made it through a gruelling process to counter the threat. With different specialists allowing the team to have everything from a scalpel-like precision to brute force with heavy firepower, they act as a counterbalance.

Where an SF team cannot penetrate a facility, Raven Squad come in. When you have ten foot mechs trying to breach a high-security Gulag and you need them removed, they come in. Raven Squad are the people that stop the world ending as we know it. Problem is, they're a little dysfunctional- and well, they're not all the most....professional of soldiers, or spies, or agents, or well, anyone who is capable of getting the job done.

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Character Sheet:

Sometime in the near future, your character was Special Forces, Mercenary, a Spy, a gangster even, or ex-whatever. But they were picked, selected even for a very good reason. The world is left vague intentionally so you're welcome to dabble with your character's journey and lore up to the RP's start.

Anyway, your person. They were more than just a regular operator, soldier, asset, mercenary. They were far beyond that.

It means that your character more likely than not is a bit of an oddball as well.

Your character passed a test known as "The Devil's Cooker", a fiendish double-triathlon level test coupled to psychometric and advanced weapons testing, truly seperating the wheat from the chaff in seeing who is truly unbreakable and more importantly, capable under pressure. 90% fail, but your character made it through, and brings something very unique the to the table- they're at the least capable of working well under pressure. Failure would have led to a cocktail of drugs being used to wipe part of their memory, and that's reason enough. Did we mention maybe Raven isn't always the most ethical?

Consider that a high bar for your character's entry. If they made it that far, they joined the very insignificantly small number of individuals capable of having the most advanced technology and equipment known to the world's intelligence agencies at their disposal, and the responsibility of saving the world....rather too frequently.

In terms of tech, there's nothing outlandish but it definitely allows for some more innovative, more interesting tech to be on the table. As a spy-fi / near future setting, everything from exoskeleton support to jump packs, nanotechnology among others are on the cards- but it's not going to be completely down the road of Cyberpunk (not to begin with, at least...). Modern contemporary weaponry is mostly still used but with experimental weaponry, if it can be made to work and you can make it work with all its advantages and flaws, then go right ahead. The playbook isn't compeletely open, but there's a hell of a lot to make your operative their unique slice of the pie. Feel free to come up with original, or genuine ideas if you think it might work- nothing too fantastical, but if it fits the theme of the RP.



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Background:

Not much is known about Raven Squad as an organisation- only that it has shadowy links to the previous "Team Scimitar", a prior semi-independent mercenary group that similarly fought against a range of terrorist threats and organisations.

Though since those days, plenty has evolved in terms of technology and equipment used- and the organisation appears to silently select those who it wants through a contact named "Oracle", who recruits operators on a selective basis. RS after all, is the boogeyman that spies, special forces and various government agencies can't even confirm exists. The operatives have a comfy life on base, but holidays don't come often when the world needs saving.

Based in a remote cove in the South Island of New Zealand, RS has access to a short runway, as well as a small complex in a boreal wood- housing a firing range, armoury, R&R facilities (including a pool, of all things!), training rooms and brefing facilities that allow it to be a home away from home- out of sight and visuals from prying eyes.

Our characters, outside of being involved in taking out the baddies, will get a chance to chill, relax and do whatever takes their fancy back at base, and it's a nice little quirk to show off your characters a bit more too at base.



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Post your CSs below, and I'll review them before accepting- then once we get those all in we'll get started! I'm thin on details at the moment at just how things will kick off, but it'll give a nice idea of the world and a good chance to showcase your characters!
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Alright I'm calling the Female Heavy. CS will be added into this post.



Not done, but the power just flickered and I don't want to lose this by accident.

EDIT! I think I'm done. @FourtyTwo take a look.
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Female light sounds nice..
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Going for the Male Light

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@BigPapaBelial

Exciting to see!

@Wayward
Yep go for it, feel free to create a char!

@Theyra
Cool, happy to have them back.
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So many character ideas. Probably going male medium support.
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@PerfectThought Sweet as- looking forward to seeing it.
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Uhh, looks like Light Female is taken
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@VeyrinDay

I'd be happy to let you add Su-Cheong in as well?
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Likely someone with a new concept, but similar in character
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@VeyrinDay

Looking forward to seeing what you have.
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im at work but ill work up a character for the male heavy position if its still available. @FourtyTwo
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Done, fill and kill- character's yours and is available!
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@BigPapaBelial

Nicely done, happy for that to go into CSs. A throwback to a previous 1x1 as an easter egg, nice!
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@FourtyTwo

Wunderbar, thank you kindly Boss.
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Hello,

I am interested in this. I am going to post my character idea. Please let me know if edits are needed. Open to suggestions and feedback.

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@LadyAmber

That is one hell of a CS, you clearly put a lot of work into this. Colour me quite impressed, post that in the Chars thread.

I think we have possibly three female lights (two in the works) so it is possible Skye is gonna task one to take up a medium role or an alternative role dependent on the situation, but nothing too far from what they'd typically have (just to make sure it's not all infiltrators on a mission!)

IC will be starting soon and it is a BIG post. But it scene sets, the two components are of it:

A) Setting the scene of the base and your character on R&R
B) The start of a very intense mission, which will be something I have cooked up for quite a while. It starts slow and the lights will be on reconnaissance after the drop-off, followed by an assault from the mediums and heavies once the gears start turning. All won't be as it seems though, and while it burns slow to start, it will get interesting quick.

I'd suggest play to both- give an idea of your character and then have them join the party. Don't make your post as long mine if you're worried about length- it's pure exposition to set the scene!
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Quick question about the opening scene. Does the teaam already know one another? Are we meeting for the first time?
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First operation together but chances are some have knowledge of each other proper. They're a rotation in the team so have gotten to know each other too. Probably have spent time in the past training but still have a bit to go!
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@FourtyTwo how does this look?

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