[OOC] XCOM Enemy Unknown Season 1: The Coming Storm

[Lennon79]

Updated Shaozu's CV with skillz.

[Marik]

Darkraven said
I mean, many of them were supposed to have seen some really dark stuff in their career,

Oh, just you wait. You’ll be seeing some dark shit with my character. ;)

At the moment I’ve got… around six paragraphs for my backstory. I’m about to rap that up, and I still need to get to the personality, which shouldn’t be too difficult. After that the only things I have to do are small details. Unfortunately, I’m going on a trip to the beach this weekend, but after the 4 hour drive I’ll be able to get a lot of writing done.

[Darkraven]

Lennon79 said
Updated Shaozu's CV with skillz.

And I've updated the accepted characters list with Jiang Shaozu. :) Consider him accepted.

Marik said
Oh, just you wait. You’ll be seeing some dark shit with my character. ;)At the moment I’ve got… around six paragraphs for my backstory. I’m about to rap that up, and I still need to get to the personality, which shouldn’t be too difficult. After that the only things I have to do are small details. Unfortunately, I’m going on a trip to the beach this weekend, but after the 4 hour drive I’ll be able to get a lot of writing done.

Alright, it's fine, take your time.

[Derpestein]

I'm coming up blank with writing my CS.

Sigh. Sorry for being late to the party.

Uuuugghhhh. Writers block.

[Darkraven]

Happens to everyone. Don't worry about it. You're not late in any way either. The IC hasn't even started yet, so you've got plenty of time.

[Lotta Pumpkins]

Revised a bit. I thought some bits weren't important, left them out. Added skills, a little more to backstory and personality.

SrA Eric Ruven

First Name/Given Name: Eric

Surname/Family Name/Last Name: Ruven

Age: 24

Birthdate: June 3rd, 1996

Gender: Male

Blood-Type: A+

Race: Caucasian

Height: 5’11

Weight: 165

Appearance/Description: Eric is a solidly built individual, with a head of dirty blonde hair, worn slightly too long, and slicked back. His facial hair is kept at a stubble as well. His eyes are a piercing blue, and his large nose, high cheek bones, and strong jaw identify him as coming from a profoundly German ancestry. On his forearm is a tattoo, with the Pararescue motto “So that others may live”. In combat he generally has his sleeves rolled up to his biceps, and wears goggles, and a cloth mask over his face, obscuring his identity.

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 2 - Personal Particulars B

Nationality: American

City/Town/Village of Origin: Baltimore, Maryland.

Educational Background: High school

Interests/Hobbies: Running, swimming, playing soccer, bird watching, and gardening.

Personality: Eric Ruven is a quiet withdrawn man, though there is some question if it is his natural nature or due to combat experiences. He is slow to trust others, either due to not having seen them earn it yet, or not believing they pull their own weight in combat scenarios. Once having earned his trust, he will make jokes with them, and be generally more friendly to the persons in question, but the levels of violence he has seen have left him prone to violent or angry outbursts on rare occasions.

Biography: Eric was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and had a largely uneventful childhood. He was an only child, to a pair of parents who were an accountant and sales clerk. His Education up into high school was subpar, and barely passing. In High school, his grades picked up, but he was still disinterested. He played soccer, and was on a team that made a championship run, but that which ended up losing. He was an exceptional athlete in all that he did, and found the sport came easily to him. After high school, he found a job for a year as a landscaper.
Once he no longer felt fulfilled by this, and realized it was a dead end job by and large, he talked to his recruiter, and after a year, was finally able to join the Air Force. During a long and grueling year and a half he graduated from the training pipeline and stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He has seen an active career here, deploying every 6 months constantly in some of the most violent countries America has visited.

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 3 - Service Record

Previous Service Affiliation/s: U.S. Air Force

Previous Unit/s: 305th Rescue Squadron

Current Vocation/Specialisation: Pararescue

Formal Training & Skills Attained: Parachuting, First aid care, Small arms Marksman, combat diver school, hand to hand combat, Survival evasion resistance and escape school.

Informally Recognised Skills Attained: Green thumb

Current Native Rank: Senior Airman (E4)

Years of Security/Police/Military Service: 4

History of Active Combat Deployments: Airman Ruven has had an active 4 years in the military. Serving in the premier search and rescue unit in the Military, he spends a lot of time deployed around the world, in some hot spots that have gone undocumented, extracting wounded service members from varius branches. During the 6 months he will spend not deployed, he is either training, on standby, or actively performing search and rescue involved in America’s current socio-political issues. He is one of the best members of his Squadron, always giving his all, and has been chosen as one of the few Airman given over to the UNXIPU as a token of good will, with the promise that more are to come if the organization doesn’t flounder. Ruven has saved countless lives, while losing more than a handful as well, which has affected him more than he wishes to admit, due to his nature of never wanting to quit, or fail.
UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 4 - Packing List

Uniforms/Clothing Manifest: 4 x Sage Green ABU uniforms, 2 pairs of Under Armour Sage Green boots, 1 Sage Green winter Fleece, 2 pairs of Green gloves, 1 Dress uniform, 1 maroon beret. 8 sand tees. One sage green hoodie.

Protective Gear Manifest: 1 kevlar helmet, 1 kevlar vest, with ceramic plates. Pair of knee pads, and elbow pads. 1 pair of ballistic goggles, 1 olive drab Shemagh.

Field Equipment Manifest: Field bag (medical kit), several ammo pounches, and a discard bag for empty magazines.

Weapons/Ammunitions Manifest: M4 carbine, with foregrip and scope. M9 handgun. Kabar combat knife.

[Pete]

Looking forward to this thing getting started, and enjoying the character stories that people have been posting, but I'm starting to see Darkraven's point about the number of American characters. Not that any of the applications are bad, but so far it seems like China and the U.S. are the only countries that give a damn about the fate of the planet.

Updated my profile a bit. Worked out some formatting, and added a written appearance description.

[Derpestein]

Pete said
Looking forward to this thing getting started, and enjoying the character stories that people have been posting, but I'm starting to see Darkraven's point about the number of American characters. Not that any of the applications are bad, but so far it seems like China and the U.S. are the only countries that give a damn about the fate of the planet.Updated my profile a bit. Worked out some formatting, and added a written appearance description.

I'm adding a russian soldier~

[Marik]

And here is my character. I doubt I'll be able to use the sword much, but if I can get close enough I'm sure I'd be able to dice a few sectoids.

Dean Spear

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 1 - Personal Particulars A

First Name/Given Name: Dean

Surname/Family Name/Last Name: Spear

Age: 29

Birthdate:1991

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation(Optional): Bisexual

Blood-Type: A

Race: Biracial (Asian/Caucasian)

Height: 5'7 1/2"

Weight: 130

Appearance/Description:


UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 2 - Personal Particulars B

Nationality: Japanese

City/Town/Village of Origin: Yokohama

Educational Background: High School Graduate

Political Background: None

Interests/Hobbies: Kendo, Kenjutsu, Cooking, Reading.

Personality: Dean is one who is heavily influenced by the actions of his peers. An outcast, all he really wants to do is fit in and find common ground with his fellow man. Dean has become very desensitized towards death, only truly caring for the people he gets attached too. He’s also a bit overly clingy and has trouble taking hints and can often make situations awkward by stepping over boundaries. He’ll typically listen and do as he’s told though, often hoping that in the process he won’t fuck up his social standing. However, when Dean’s not interacting with others, which he mostly likes to keep to a minimum, his OCD will end up kicking in and all his focus will go to the task at hand.

Biography: Dean Spear was born and raised in the city of Yokohama. He lived a normal life with his small family, going to school and participating in kendo at the local dojo. Thinks were very peaceful at the time and Dean considered himself a very happy child; Ignorant to the ways of the world, but happy. He would often ask of his parents’ lives back in America but they would always ignore the question and change subjects. Officially, their former lives were unimportant and Dean’s mother Yukiko had always wanted to connect with her roots in Japan. The young boy would inevitably shrug it off and accept their thinly veiled answer, growing to accept that their past held little value.

Unlike his average school grades, Dean rose to the top of his class in kendo practices after taking a liking to the subject at a very young age. He spent his teenage years honing his skills and doing little else, causing a dwindle in curricular performance. The only other activates Dean had shown interest to at the time were that of the culinary arts, which he learned when he would help his mother cook at home. Dean went on to work in a local restaurant, and had a promising future as a chef, planning to save up funds to go to a culinary academy.

Everything was going well until one evening after kendo practice, Dean arrived home to find the dead bodies of his parents. He was mortified, just the sight of the bloody, mutilated corpses of the people who raised him could have been enough to make him go insane. Disoriented, the young man was unprepared for the killer to still be in the house, and in a desperate attempt to kill before being killed, Dean and the assailant partook in a struggle that ended with a crazed boy murdering a man by bashing a bamboo sword into the head repeatedly.

No police were called. All Dean had the nerve to do was crawl into another room and collect himself mentally. He laid himself up against a wall for hours, then deciding to go back and check the killer’s body. The sight of the elaborate body tattoos the man had informed Dean that he was Yakuza, a fact that terrified him even more. Not only that, but this individual was a fairly praised lieutenant for the Mori family, a group of criminals who had a hold on the area. Everything in his being told Dean to run, but there was a small part in him that wanted revenge on the Yakuza for what they had done to ruin his life in one fell swoop. Lacking the strength to do so, Dean opted for the former, but had to live with the guilt for never going after the other Mori family members.

Dean quickly packed everything that had held importance to him, and took the money he’d been saving to buy a plane ticket to somewhere far away. Only one place stuck out to him, the place that his parents said they were from. In an effort to hide himself and possibly gain some insight on the pasts of Yukiko Nakamura and Rick Spear, Dean set out to the small city of Summerlin, Michigan. It had been said that the United States were falling onto hard times, but Dean could have never anticipated that Summerlin was a cesspool that housed violent criminals, corrupt cops, every vice and sin you could imagine, and gangs claiming turf in every neighborhood. It was hard to imagine that this was where his parents had been raised, and understood why they fled the country when poverty hit and crime rose. Still, this place was better than Japan, as it was far out of the clutches of the Mori family.

Dean was able to find himself a small apartment where he could lay low, but as time went on the money followed. Jobs were scarce and eventually the young man now in his 20’s had to resort to more criminal measures in order to pay the bills. He started with moving minor drugs but eventually worked his way up to stealing cars for chop shops, partaking in convenience store robberies, and even murdering other criminals who accumulated bounties on their heads. He held little joy for these acts because most of them involved working with people like the one who killed his parents. All except the latter, which Dean reveled in. He would take every chance he had to kill another person he deemed to be “evil” and his obsession with hunting for money grew to be borderline psychopathic. Dean assured himself that it was all in the name of justice, but deep down he was only feeding into the rush he got from exacting revenge on the first man he killed back home.

In 2014, the United States government issued for a small paramilitary organization to come into various cities to deal with the crime there. They gained the moniker of T.A.G, or the Tactical Anti-Gang Unit. This experiment started in Summerlin, with the command of their troops going to one Captain Bunglon Hitam. A public statement was made by Hitam to explain that such a course of action had to be taken only because crime was so prevalent, and that T.A.G would be taking over all police duties in Summerlin. It was by pure coincidence that both Dean and Hitam found themselves in a firefight with the local mafia days later, as neither party may have made it out alive without the other’s help. Hitam took a liking to the boy and offered him a position in T.A.G, which Dean accepted hoping that their combined actions may be able to rid Summerlin of its criminal underbelly.

And while Dean saw a good and heroic man in Hitam, the more manipulative side of the Captain went unnoticed. The boy was only asked to join T.A.G because Hitam saw potential to mold his impressionable mind into a pawn that could follow every order word by word, thus giving T.A.G an individual who could give information on the going ons of the city. All Hitam had to do was lead Dean along with praise on all the good they’d accomplish, and hopefully results would follow. Thus, Dean became the boss’ new favorite, providing reconnaissance with his assigned squad and going on covert operations to receive vital Intel. When out of the line of duty, Dean was Hitam’s right hand.

Some saw warriors that fought for the good of the people, others saw fools attempting to overthrow everything they’ve worked for, and more still couldn’t tell the difference between criminal and lawman as if both were just as damaging as the other. That last point may have held some merit, as T.A.G’s shock and awe tactics saw more bodies than arrests, eventually causing civilian panic and uproar. Still, Dean felt that he was doing good work, and stood up to the challenge with his unorthodox swordsmanship and gunman skills.

It was inevitable that T.A.G would be dismantled due to terrible public views and their high kill count, but that didn’t stop Hitam and his men from continuing their paramilitary work, and inevitably Dean followed along, as he saw his commanding officer as a father figure where he previously lost one. Their profession would then take them around the world and back again, but Dean’s crowning achievement had to have been his return back home to Japan and the takedown of the big-time Mori Family as well as several other influential groups in the crime syndicate, earning the young man positivity in the public eye, as well as an offer to be a representative of Japan in UNXIPU.

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 3 - Service Record

Previous Service Affiliation/s: T.A.G (Tactical Anti-Gang Unit)

Previous Unit/s: T.A.G Summerlin Branch

Current Vocation/Specialization: Reconnaissance

Previous Vocation/s/Specialization/s: None

Formal Training & Skills Attained: Marksmanship, scouting, espionage

Informally Recognised Skills Attained: Kendo, Kenjutsu, Culinary,

Current Native Rank: Specialist

Previous Native Rank/s: None

Years of Security/Police/Military Service: 6

History of Active Combat Deployments: T.A.G deployment in Summerlin, Paramilitary work in Mexico, Africa, Vietnam and Japan.

Awards/Medals/Certificates/Citations Achieved: Order of the Rising Sun

Others: None

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 4 - Packing List

Uniforms/Clothing Manifest: Civilian Clothing

Protective Gear Manifest: Utility Uniform, Light Tactical Vest, Tactical Knee-Pads and Elbow-Pads, Boots, NOMEX flame retardant hood.

Field Equipment Manifest: One flash-bang grenade, pouches for said flash-bang and extra ammo.

Weapons/Ammunitions Manifest: Katana, Heckler & Koch MP7.

Others: None

[Darkraven]

Stefan0620: Looking good so far. I'd say that it's good enough to be accepted.

Derpestein: Finally, someone who isn't American or Chinese! :D

Marik: And speaking of which... Anyway, I've read through your CS. It looks well developed so far, except for a few things. 'Specialist' is too ambiguous a rank, unless of course, it's an actual rank in T.A.G. I'm going to need clarification on this. But then this is only the simplest part.

Regarding your character's loadout, I'm going to need a little more elaboration on the submachinegun. As you know, there are a lot of different models of SMGs in the world, so I need you to pick one. It doesn't even have to be real. I mean, 6 years should be enough for a few new models to be designed, field-tested and distributed.

And the final bit has wider implications. You mentioned in your character's story that T.A.G was dismantled, yet in your character's history of combat deployments, T.A.G would go on to conduct operations in multiple countries. Is there a mistake there?

Also, don't worry about not being able to use the Katana. Assuming that your character lives long enough, there might be opportunities for that, and since we're dealing with aliens here, unorthodoxed tactics would be called for. Who knows? Maybe there might be a type of alien that would be vulnerable to swords? :D

Anyway, just so you know, Japan, like China, is also beginning to issue swords to NCOs and COs across several services as well, so your Katana isn't out of place. You could say that swords are having a revival in the military, well, at least in Asia. ASEAN would have several countries doing that too, just that I haven't mentioned it yet until now.

Everyone: It seems that things are going as planned. Once I get a few more CSes out of the way, we'll be able to start.

[Marik]

Darkraven said
Marik: And speaking of which... Anyway, I've read through your CS. It looks well developed so far, except for a few things. 'Specialist' is too ambiguous a rank, unless of course, it's an actual rank in T.A.G. I'm going to need clarification on this. But then this is only the simplest part.

I got the Specialist rank for the U.S. army. It’s right above PFC and below CPL.

http://www.militaryfactory.com/ranks/army_ranks.asp

Darkraven said
Regarding your loadout, I'm going to need a little more elaboration on the submachinegun. As you know, there are a lot of different models of SMGs in the world, so I need you to pick one. It doesn't even have to be real. I mean, 6 years should be enough for a few new models to be designed, field-tested and distributed.

Yeah, I’ll get to looking up a specific gun. That shouldn’t be any problem.

Darkraven said
And the final bit has wider implications. You mentioned in your character's story that T.A.G was dismantled, yet in your character's history of combat deployments, T.A.G would go on to conduct operations in multiple countries. Is there a mistake there?

T.A.G was let go by the American government, but they still conducted operations as a paramilitary group on their own accord. The only reason why I called them T.A.G at that point was because I was coming to a blank on what to call them, and I can change that if you like.

Darkraven said
Also, don't worry about not being able to use the Katana. Assuming that your character lives long enough, there might be opportunities for that, and since we're dealing with aliens here, unorthodoxed tactics would be called for. Who knows? Maybe there might be a type of alien that would be vulnerable to swords? :DAnyway, just so you know, Japan, like China, is also beginning to issue swords to NCOs and COs across several services as well, so your Katana isn't out of place. You could say that swords are having a revival in the military, well, at least in Asia. ASEAN would have several countries doing that too, just that I haven't mentioned it yet until now.Everyone: It seems that things are going as planned. Once I get a few more CSes out of the way, we'll be able to start.

Just think about it… laser swords…

[Lennon79]

About the most modern Japanese SMG going is the PM-9, although an MP7 might look more sufficiently badass and modern. And Specialist is roughly equivalent to Lance Corporal, though they tend to be, well, specialists rather than fire team leaders.

[Derpestein]

...

I am imagining, later in the RP, Marik being able to use a laser/plasma sword and duel an alien, or a new plasma sword wielding alien.

If this were an actual X-Com game, I'd think of kinetic strike used by mecs, particularly the animation.

Berserker lunges on top of you? BOOM, PLASMA SWORD TO THE STOMACH.

Mechtoid? SLICE AND DICE.

And for the regular aliens like sections, like how Kinetic strike has a standard punch animation...
Decapitation animation.

[Marik]

Edited in my gun choice, and thanks Lennon, I decided to go with the MP7.

Derpestein said
...I am imagining, later in the RP, Marik being able to use a laser/plasma sword and duel an alien, or a new plasma sword wielding alien.If this were an actual X-Com game, I'd think of kinetic strike used by mecs, particularly the animation.Berserker lunges on top of you? BOOM, PLASMA SWORD TO THE STOMACH.Mechtoid? SLICE AND DICE.And for the regular aliens like sections, like how Kinetic strike has a standard punch animation...Decapitation animation.

Dude, swords in an XCOM game would be rad. And coupled with psionics? I’d totally have a legit reason to name some of my troops after Jedi or Sith.

[Derpestein]

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I...

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X-Com mod that has melee weapons for infantry needs to be made.

Laser sword v Laser sword plus psionic plus Duel Of Fates music =
So much yes.

[Lotta Pumpkins]

Alright, I'll be waiting for the IC

[Derpestein]

Ugh, writers block. I ducking hate you, brain.

I'm coming up blank with creating a CS.

I have the basic idea in mind but I just can't flesh it out properly. Ugh.

[Marik]

Derpestein said
Ugh, writers block. I ducking hate you, brain.I'm coming up blank with creating a CS.I have the basic idea in mind but I just can't flesh it out properly. Ugh.

You need any help? I don't mind lending a hand.

[Heyitsjiwon]

Is there any more space in this? I'm really interested since I just bought and played through Xcom: Enemy Unknown. Was a bit too short, but challenging. I got lucky with my second wave stuff. I picked the two options where recruits start with random stats and growth was randomized too. One of my first soldiers turned out to have 85 Aim and pretty good will. She later on became my best psi-user as well. Her ending stats were 86 Will and 115 Aim.

[Marik]

Heyitsjiwon said
Is there any more space in this? I'm really interested since I just bought and played through Xcom: Enemy Unknown. Was a bit too short, but challenging. I got lucky with my second wave stuff. I picked the two options where recruits start with random stats and growth was randomized too. One of my first soldiers turned out to have 85 Aim and pretty good will. She later on became my best psi-user as well. Her ending stats were 86 Will and 115 Aim.

I believe the GM said they were looking for ten people, so there may be room for you. I’d wait for an official response from Darkraven first before making a CS, mostly because I’d rather not speak for them and say something wrong in the process, but feel free to kick around a few character ideas in your head just in case we do have room.