Star Wars Comedy Adventure Pairing [high casual]

[Skull]

I'd like to keep things simple in terms of groups, which is why I brought this interest check in the 1x1. However, if one or two more people would like to join in, I'll consider moving this over to the casual check. The setting would ideally be long after the movies. Jedi are extinct, and the Empire has regained its vice-grip over the galaxy. We'd essentially be tied down in a city to a backwater colony, whom for whatever reason, are looking to get off world. Unfortunately, we're in deep debt with the local hutt and are forced to take on as many odd jobs we can to pay it off. That is when we stumble upon a relic of old. This artifact is sought after by nearly everyone, but it is up to us to determine its fate.

Our characters won't be badass crackshot bounty hunters, or naturally gifted fighters who are blessed with the force. Think of us as flesh forms of C3PO and R2D2, just trying to survive in this galaxy while figuring out what the hell to do with this magical artifact that everyone's after. It's aimed to be a light hearted comedy, but there will be serious elements in the overarching plot to flush out our characters and their place in this galaxy. Do we become legendary heroes, or a dimwitted fable told by that crazy drunk in every Cantina? Why not both?

Feel free to PM me or post here if you're interested!

[El Taco Taco]

Oh boy! I normally play in the Old Republic, but this sounds like a crazy good time and the lack of Jedi is hella appealing.

I have a pair of Zeltron twins, a mechanic and a Jedi I can easily repurpose as a merc, who are incapable of keeping out of trouble. They're as likely to fix a situation as they are to accidentally set everything on fire,

I love comedy and misadventures dearly and yes. If you'll have me, I'd love to flesh this out with you. Also, this would be an amazing little group RP and I would absolutely be on board with that. :D

[Skull]

I'm glad to hear it taco! I love your ideas for what you have in mind for characters as well. I'm definitely thinking about having my main as a young Mon Calamari jack of all trades kind of guy. He's mainly a pod racer mechanic/moisture vaporator repairman that likes to take his share of filtered water. The planet ideal for his predicament would be Tattoine (more densely populated now), but we can work around that if you feel that planet is played out.

I'd more than appreciate any kind of help to flush this concept out.

[Danko]

I really like the sound of this, if there's room for another I'd definitely be interested in joining. I'm thinking a gun-for-hire character who talks a big game but is actually more likely to hide when things get heated than fight. He's in deep debt due to defaulting on jobs and is only still alive due to blind luck.

[El Taco Taco]

Ahhh, I love the Mon Calamari! :D Fuck yeah!

Tatooine is iconic, and I think absolutely perfect. Who wouldn’t want to get off planet? I’m of the opinion you can’t really run a Star Wars game without Tatooine, or, at the very least, Nar Shadaa.

My Zeltrons are kind of a ridiculous pair—Aelyn’s a mechanic and something of a savant with a hydrospanner, but she’s quick to blow all her credits gambling or buying junk droids to tinker with. She’s got a bad case of wanderlust but she’s totally ill-equipped to save money or prepare for journeys.
Mykail isn’t much better. While he’s a lot less impulsive, he’s a perpetual asshole, with the amazing gift to find something to bitch about, no matter his surroundings. He’s incapable of holding his tongue or deferring, even with his life on the line.

They’re a package deal, and between the two of them they usually manage to piss someone off badly enough to have to run for their lives within a year or two of settling down somewhere.

Artefact wise, what are you thinking? The first thing that comes to mind for me is a Holocron, although why a holocron would be on Tatooine is beyond me. Maybe they were dispersed across the galaxy in a last ditch effort to save Jedi knowledge from the Empire? Extinct Jedi or not, they’d probably fetch a good price for the right buyer and would possibly be hella dangerous.
Or maybe the artifact could be something like the Muur Talisman? I’m a huge fan of bending canon to my whims, who says it needs to have been destroyed? P: Plus, Rakghouls! That shit would be cray.

Danko, I’m totally down. That sounds hilarious.

[Skull]

Danko said
I really like the sound of this, if there's room for another I'd definitely be interested in joining. I'm thinking a gun-for-hire character who talks a big game but is actually more likely to hide when things get heated than fight. He's in deep debt due to defaulting on jobs and is only still alive due to blind luck.

haha I like the sound of that. You're definitely welcome aboard this circus we are about to unravel.

El Taco Taco said
Ahhh, I love the Mon Calamari! :D Fuck yeah! Tatooine is iconic, and I think absolutely perfect. Who want to get off planet? I’m of the opinion you can’t really run a Star Wars game without Tatooine, or, at the very least, Nar Shadaa.

Okay good! I'm glad you feel that way about Tattooine. I felt like there was no better planet that could make for a perfect start point for something like this. It's a dustball full of odd people, doing odd shit out of sheer boredom from the desert culture. Perfect platform for a bunch of goof balls who are equally bored looking to do anything to get out of their current situation.

El Taco Taco said
My Zeltrons are kind of a ridiculous pair—Aelyn’s a mechanic and something of a savant with a hydrospanner, but she’s quick to blow all her credits gambling or buying junk droids to tinker with. She’s got a bad case of wanderlust but she’s totally ill-equipped to save money or prepare for journeys. Mykail isn’t much better. While he’s a lot less impulsive, he’s a perpetual asshole, with the amazing gift to find something to bitch about, no matter his surroundings. He’s incapable of holding his tongue or deferring, even with his life on the line. They’re a package deal, and between the two of them they usually manage to piss someone off badly enough to have to run for their lives within a year or two of settling down somewhere.

That's great stuff. I like how our cast is shaping up already. Troublesome twins. Gun shy gun-for-hire. Slacker Mon Cal. I love it haha.

El Taco Taco said
Artefact wise, what are you thinking? The first thing that comes to mind for me is a Holocron, although why a holocron would be on Tatooine is beyond me. Maybe they were dispersed across the galaxy in a last ditch effort to save Jedi knowledge from the Empire? Extinct Jedi or not, they’d probably fetch a good price for the right buyer and would possibly be hella dangerous.Or maybe the artifact could be something like the Muur Talisman? I’m a huge fan of bending canon to my whims, who says it needs to have been destroyed? P: Plus, Rakghouls! That shit would be cray.Danko, I’m totally down. That sounds hilarious.

Holocron was exactly what I was thinking. The Empire is out on a purge run trying to wipe out every piece of information about the Jedi into nonexistence. This thing is the full compendium. Culture, history, philosophy, every protocol/tradition/ritual on force wielding and saber construction. We don't have to know that right off the bat. Maybe what we find is a droid that knows its location, or at least we thought it did, until it winds up taking us on a wild goose chase. In fact, it puts everyone that's after this holocron on a wild goose chase until we eventually figure out its purposely leading us astray from its true location. That's just one possibility though. We can go the Murr Talisman route too. Hell the droid could end up taking us to multiple artifacts.

There's that route, then there's the path of already having the holocron. It could be installed within the droid and once revealed will show a star map of lost treasures and/or pieces of missing data. Either way what I have in mind is a droid or anyone that'll be a piece of crap dangling a carrot in front of us, while putting us at odds with almost everyone in the galaxy. I'm getting psyched for this lol.

[El Taco Taco]

Oh god, this shit is getting ridiculously awesome already. This is amazeballs. Totally love the idea of our poor bastards getting lead on by a shitty little droid or whatever and stumbling across the galaxy, barely surviving their own incompetence.

Either finding the holocron or using the holocron to find treasure are both fabulous options in my book, although I suppose hunting for the holocron itself might lend itself more towards a slightly more serious plot, maybe using it to resist the Empire and rebuild rebel scum goodness... although I'm pretty sure the idiots will manage to fuck it all up, no matter which route we go.

[Skull]

Yeah, hunting for the holocron is more ideal and what you have in mind is exactly what I was thinking. I'm just cracking up thinking of an opening post where these green Rebel Alliance officers are gathered around a table at a cantina talking up stories that depict our group as these BAMF legends that started the whole movement. Until some really old drunk ass randomly slams his cup down and tells them what really happened, segueing into our posts.

(This is thinking too far ahead) but at one point when the plot gets steered in the more serious direction, we uncover a missing data cache that unlocks an assimilated consciousness of Luke Skywalker (like Jor-El from man of steel), who points us to an outer rim colony. There, we find the last hidden temple where the remaining jedi are. Only, all of them are dead by the time we get to them. All except for one, who is clearly dumb as shit, but has potential to be the greatest jedi ever. The actual ghost skywalker will then resonate with this jedi, but like I said, he is so stupid that it frustrates skywalker to the point where he nearly turns to the darkside, forcing us, who has zero knowledge of anything force/jedi related to become his half assed masters. Big chunks of the jedi compendium are still missing, so we start bullshitting to fill in the blanks. Not only did we kickstart the new rebellion, but we just inadvertently enabled a very dumb man to eventually become the grandmaster of a new jedi order.

[Skull]

I gotta go to bed early for work, but feel free to post up any ideas you have Taco. Same goes for you too Danko - and anyone else that wants to join. I want to keep this a small group so it doesn't get over-saturated with characters. I'm thinking one more person and I'll lock it up and take this to casual land.

[El Taco Taco]

Oh god, I'm dying. I love the idea of starry-eyed recruits learning about the absolute stupidity of their heroes. It's beautiful.

And of course the only surviving Jedi would be a dumbass. That's magical. *_*

I'm thinking, more than anything, our morons need a pilot and a ship to round them out.

I'll scribble up some ideas tomorrow after getting some sleep. I'm on PST, just a heads up.

[Skull]

I'm PST too. I'll be replying on my phone most of the day.

Yeah we definitely need a pilot and ship. If the next player we get doesn't want the role maybe one of our characters can take it up? Like Danko's character or the Zeltron bro?

[Danko]

I really like what I'm seeing so far, this sounds like it'll be a good laugh. Sort of like Gaurdians of the Galaxy but Star Wars.

I'm fine with my character being the pilot/having a ship. At the start of the story his ship could be impounded by someone he owes money to and maybe they have to steal it back to get off planet. My character might neglect to inform anyone that it's impounded until after they hire him to be their pilot.

[Skull]

Haha that's perfect! We've gotta get the crummiest looking ship too.

I was thinking we know each other in some way. Like we grew up in the same podunk town or something. Either way, we'll all be connected because we'll all owe the same guy.

I really need to watch GOTG, but if it's anything like how the DnA comics were, then yeah definitely what I have in mind!

[El Taco Taco]

Haha, yessss. A piece of shit that can barely make the jump to Hyperspace, but goddammit she's theirs and only they can talk shit about her. I love it.

I'm thinking my twins grew up following their pops, a general for the Empire, from planet to plane. Since life expectancy isn't exactly great for Imperial officers, he eventually gets the axe and they're sent off to Zeltros to stay with family. Their transport never makes it, and their long chain of misadventures lead them to Tatooine.
They managed to get the local Hutt to buy them from their last employers/owners, and they're trying to raise the credits to buy their freedom... or someone willing to buy them out, since they're pretty useless at saving money.

Dude, you're fucking up. I know the hypes been crazy, but Guardians is legit amazing. Go watch it. It's glorious

[FernStone]

Well if you're looking for another person, I'd love to join :) Haven't roleplayed Star Wars in ages and this crazy sounding adventure sounds like the perfect thing! I should probably watch the movies again though... My current only character thought is probably a female twi'lek who either currently is a slave (probably to the same hutt as the twins which would add connections, you know) or who was a slave but escaped and is trying to make a living by doing just about anything, dabbling in stuff from attempting to be a mechanic to just whatever people don't want to do as long as its low profile.

But yeah, that is if you'll have me. I told myself I'd reached my roleplay limit but this just sounds like far too much fun to miss out on

(Also I've watched Guardians of the Galaxy xP)

[Danko]

Oh yeah, the ship is going to be a pile of junk but my character will talk it up so much that everyone would think he was talking about the pride of the Imperial fleet.

I'd definitely recommend Guardians of the Galaxy, it's similar to this roleplay idea in the way that the characters seem to not really know what they're doing most of the time and just end up in totally insane situations.

[Skull]

Hey guys I just read through your posts. I'll post up a more comprehensive response later tonight. Took up a double shift. Ughh.

But yes! Fern you are more welcome to join us! Looks like that completes our team. Is that okay with you guys that it'll just be us four? As mentioned above I really want to keep the focus on our squad, but if you feel otherwise, please let me know and we can discuss it. And I think I'll transfer this over to casual when I get home. You can prepare your sheets in the meantime if you like.

And yes I am terrible haha. I'm like the last person that hasn't seen GOTG. Blasphemous considering I'm a marvel fan.

[Skull]

El Taco Taco said
I'm thinking my twins grew up following their pops, a general for the Empire, from planet to plane. Since life expectancy isn't exactly great for Imperial officers, he eventually gets the axe and they're sent off to Zeltros to stay with family. Their transport never makes it, and their long chain of misadventures lead them to Tatooine.They managed to get the local Hutt to buy them from their last employers/owners, and they're trying to raise the credits to buy their freedom... or someone willing to buy them out, since they're pretty useless at saving money.

Sounds good. Everyone will maintain our connection through the Hutt so we can have more freedom for each of our histories. Haven't solidified my Mon Cal's backstory, but he definitely transplanted from Dac with his family at a young age.

FernStone said
My current only character thought is probably a female twi'lek who either currently is a slave (probably to the same hutt as the twins which would add connections, you know) or who was a slave but escaped and is trying to make a living by doing just about anything, dabbling in stuff from attempting to be a mechanic to just whatever people don't want to do as long as its low profile.

I think either scenario would be fun. We could break you out if you choose to be a slave, or you could simply tag along with us if you've already escaped. The motive behind both would be that you somehow found out that we plan on leaving tattoine with the droid, and you threaten to tell the hutt if we don't take you with us.

Danko said
Oh yeah, the ship is going to be a pile of junk but my character will talk it up so much that everyone would think he was talking about the pride of the Imperial fleet.

I love it. What you mentioned earlier about it being impounded would work perfectly if Fern decides to go the slave route, because then we all could go swoop her up and immediately break in to steal back your ship and fly the hell off that planet. Perhaps she somehow knows the access code to get into the secured docking bay it's at.

I'll wait til I hear back from you guys with what you think about keeping the RP between us before I move it to casual. The OP will be pretty simple, just a basic plot and probably a map of tattoine or something.

Here's a basic template but you don't have to use it. You can put it in whatever format you want for your character sheets, and reveal what you'd like us to know for now.

You can post it in the casual OOC when I get it up and running.

Character Sheet:

Appearance:

Name:

Age:

Race:

Personality:

Skills:

Equipment:

History:

Misc:

[FernStone]

I think I will go the slave route with my character - seems like it will just work all the better in the story and yup I'd quite like to do that. She can totally find out the access code and all that, after threatening to tell the hutt so that she's taken along.

I, personally, think it would be pretty good to just keep it between us - more likely the rp will actually get somewhere, keeps it concentrated on the small group and it would probably just work well in general. But that's my opinion *shrugs* And I've always preferred roleplays with smaller groups

[El Taco Taco]

In terms of player count-- I'm fine with the size of the group as is, but I'm not opposed to having one more person, either. Anything more than 5 people and things tend to fall apart in my experience. I do like keeping the focus on our merry band of misfits.

Also, yay, Twilek! :D :D :D