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8 mos ago
Current Still alive. Sorry for the delays. Still have that new job, but I'm (gradually) getting another one. Current one is too slow.
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1 yr ago
Starting a new job in June. Wish me luck!
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2 yrs ago
I truly wish I didn't have to type this, but RIP Jason David Frank.
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2 yrs ago
Still a little sick. Some sort of cold. Hopefully not the flu. Getting better but it's slowed me down.
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2 yrs ago
That's a good point. Classics like The Little Mermaid were basically perfect the first time around and any remakes can only be worse. Remakes of the bad Disney movies are a second chance for them.
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Hi there! I've been roleplaying for years, mostly in fantasy-type RPs. I don't like giving out too much about myself, but I am a man living in New York City (that's in the Eastern time zone, if you don't already know), over 18. Recently, I have been busy working, although I graduated from college and grad school a while back.

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Here's mine. It's a bit sparse, but that's common for Spartans, especially before the IVs.

Name: Ben-E218

Rank: Lieutenant

Species: Human (Spartan III)

Appearance: Generation 2 Mjolnir Armor, colored black with a dark-tinted visor. (I can look up the exact details of his accessories from the MCC gear list.)

Skills: Excellent sniper, although as with all Spartans, Ben is trained in the use of most if not all UNSC equipment.

Preferred Weapons: SRS99-S5 AM sniper rifle, Covenant sniper weapons (when available), M319 grenade launcher.

Background: Entered service in 2545, having been born on the planet [Censored]. As with all Spartan-IIIs, Ben was orphaned at a young age when the Covenant attacked his planet, glassing the surface. Early on, he was singled out for his skills as a sniper, along with extreme levels of loyalty and a willingness to carry out any order given to him, even those which required him to turn of his own friends and allies. As such, Ben was assigned to the Spartan-III Security operations group, an organization so secretive, even other Spartans weren't made aware of it.

As part of Sec Ops, Ben was nominally a part of Beta company for some years, switching to Alpha and Gamma on occasion. He achieved an exemplary number of kills and was never part of a failed mission. As such, he advanced to the commissioned ranks quickly, becoming a lieutenant by the year 2552. None of the other Spartans knew that he was part of Security Operations, or what his real missions were, for while he still had the same objectives on each mission as the rest of the team he was assigned to, his real goal was to keep the other Spartans in line, report any dissent, and execute any member of the Spartan program who displayed treasonous behavior, cowardice, or put UNSC security at unnecessary risk. His authority for execution also extended as far as the normal UNSC military forces, a fact kept well off the books. It also extended to witnesses to any event which if reported, could jeopardize the political or military aims of the UNSC.

After the end of the Human-Covenant war, Security Operations was reformed into Epsilon company, and retroactively given all of the trappings of a normal UNSC Spartan-III company as if it had been active since the start of the Spartan-III program. Now that the Spartan-IV program has begun, no more members of Epsilon are being added, and members of the company are often combined or sent to participate in larger groups which are formed as the situation demands.
"Ophion could vouch for you, no prob-" Aurescia thought about it. "- well, once we explain it, I'm sure he'll come around. As for the aura of the temple, it should be fine as long as you avoid alters to those gods whose powers are too attuned to the positive energy planes. I'm not an expert on the undead, but anyone who's studied that sort of thing at all knows that you operate on what is very broadly known as negative energy. Really, once you show that you aren't going to kill anyone at the temple, it should be alright. At worst, most of them will consider you to be a 'controlled spirit.' It's not like they don't occasionally conjure up spirits of the dead to ask them for knowledge which would otherwise be lost forever."
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Are these the only ideas you like? Are you open to others?
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@Shadow Dragon

Seems like it.
Not sure what happened to the new guy who said he wanted to join.
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"You would have to go to the great temple of Minbenthac to do that" Aurescia explained. "And there's no fee, but it is up to the clerics there to decide which gods are considered acceptable to worship and which aren't. Don't be surprised if you don't like the response they give you. Now, I'm expert on how it works, but there is a rather long and bureaucratic process which goes up several different levels, with appeals, divinations, research, and all sorts of analysis, none of which I'm qualified to comment on." She prepared some beef stew, pausing for only a few moments to speak some more.

"I guess there is paperwork, but you wouldn't be the one doing most of it. Now, here's the stew. Hope you like it. There's some spices if you want to put them in, but I figured that it's best to start off bland since this is your first meal since before most of the buildings in the city were built."
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