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RUNE (Reboot) [Fantasy, Sci-fi, Quest]

Post away then. If I'm quick I'll probably have the IC up tonight!

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Kilo6 said
Trudy Barkstone

I like her, she's perfectly balanced, you don't need to change anything, and no fluff issues.

However, I'm not sure how much she can actually fly, and she may have to spend most of her time on the ground, and I'm not sure if that's very fun. Are you okay with that? the last thing I want is for any of my players to not have fun.

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Ollumhammersong said
The idea behind the 903rd being that in a land of constant disorginization, political backstab, and rampant paranioa and distrust they are perhaps the one constant that remains. And considering who the umbrans are I don't think that thinking up a private and extremely brutal (even by their standards) conditioning and training regime is out of the question. Especially training them for unconditional and unquestioning loyalty. And the name 903rd as I said was their more recent title. They have had a lot fo names, Rebrandings, etc. I can remove the 903rd part but the name is really arbitrary. They have existed in one form or another for a long time. Their name and the extent of their duties would vary from Czar to Czar, And because of the Ambition/Paranioa/greed/ Of the Czars regardless of their benevolence. Maybe a long time ago the 903rd was attached to a specific Czar, but once that Czar was defeated they were given the option to either die with their master or continue serving. Obviously they chose the latter. From that point it became a sort of twisted tradition amongst the 'battalion' (Or whatever we are going to call it) To pledge loyalty to the newest Czar, as long as they get to continue killing and Carrying out the Traditions they don't give a flying fuck who is calling the shots. The Czars, for all their posturing are loathe to completely throw away such a useful tool. So they fix it up, give it a new name to make it seem as if they are completely different from the previous regime and Viola! The Battalion lives on in some capacity or another. And like I said most of them would be dispersed and awaiting orders for reformation. Only a small 'core' would be continuing active service such as Scouting, Black-ops, spying on other noble houses, etc

The current Czar has dismantled bioweapons programs, released POWs, stopped a supersoldier program, among other things. Getting rid of the mindless death-squad drones would be priority one.

Ollumhammersong said
I can easily strike the battalion from their name, And the 903rd. I just thought they were badass. And making assumptions about the military. Even evil people can pride discipline and regimentation, was my thought anyway. The size is negotiable. I left it at a battalion figuring any thing else would be to large or to small for anything large scale the Czar needed done. And maybe they aren't the official house guard (because keeping secret guards sounds exactly like an umbran thing to do)

Umbrans have secret research. They enjoy theatrics with their royal guard and the whole '3 dozen badasses protect me at all times' is a great assassin deterrent, seeing as how Umbrans tend to value their own lives more than anything.

Ollumhammersong said
I can alter the armour as well. That is easy. And I don't think every single dark affiliated person needs to extole every last virtue to be identified as dark. Yes he has no real sense of Greed or ambition. But Strong senses of pride, ruthlessness, and Cold hearted doesn't begin to approach, And a temper when roused that can be as terrifying as a demigod's. Even if a water affiliated person doesn't have to strong a sense of emotions or just hides them better. I think most of them would shy away and vomit from a quarter of the shit he has been asked to do.

Fire, Light, and Water, respectively. Do not think water people weak. Most serial killers can be thought of as water. And no, you don't have to extoll every Dark virtue, but you need at least one.

Ollumhammersong said
Now yes he lacks any of the defining characteristics of a typical 'hardcore Umbran'. But we can look at groups like the SAS and special forces who work for morally high(arguable I suppose) government and at times through history do distasteful and relatively cold tactics to get the job done. Essentially, Good people can do bad things for good reasons. And Bad people who are constantly surrounded by rivals and assassins may just feel like Conditioning a private force of fanatically loyal members who wont suffer from the same ambition and greed as everyone else would be in their best interest. Just because a character does not commit atrocities and backstab on a regular basis, doesn't mean he is not evil. He is an umbran who will just as soon stab you in the neck as answer any personal questions you try to throw his way. But he has an amazing amount of restraint as well. Knowing there is a time and a place, and anywhere outside of Umbra is usually not the place.

Any Umbran citizen(or leader) worth his/her salt would find the idea of mindless kill-drones utterly revolting. Taking away one's identity is the ultimate punishment. Umbrans are NOT evil by default. In fact, most aren't.

Ollumhammersong said
And as for the Umbran military. None of this information was listed, I went with what I figured was a suitably 'Lawful evil' or neutral evil character. Evil doesn;t mean you always have a plot to kill someone or you must be in a constant lust for greed or power. There are patient evil people, I mean hell if anyone read the dragonlance series where the dark queen created her own counter order to the righteous knights of Solamnia. Those knights were evil, that was without question, but they had personal honour, Chivalry, And no ambition greater than serving their Mistress. That's what made them awesome. They were knights, With nearly the same moral codes just a different ruler.

UMBRA's alignment is chaotic neutral. A lawful evil character or organization is an excessively rare thing, and likely not of dark affinity. Evil is simply not really tolerated on this world, it's generally a quite nice place to live. In the city at least. Everywhere outside is generally a death-filled wasteland in most places.

I'm sorry, this organization and this character do not work as Umbrans. but nobody in this age of RUNE's history would tolerate such an organization.

It cannot be stressed enough that right now, each government can be considered Good (save Ignis, which needs a new Warlord), and would not allow anyone to commit such atrocities in their name.

Nevermind my global ban on Evil characters. (Evil player characters have ruined SO MANY games in my experience. Espescially in dungeons and dragons)

With that in mind, I'll have to deny him in his current state.

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Alright, where to start.

Well, the royal families of UMBRA each have their own personal 'honor guard' as it were. The Onyx family prefers things of a more magical nature. Their defenders are the Blackguard, about three dozen heavily armored mage-knights.

The big thing about UMBRA is it's a very selfish country that prizes individuality and progress (both magical and technological), above things like order or discipline. As such loyalty to just any Czar is ridiculous, but loyalty to a particular family is not. Chaos and ambition are UMBRA's hallmarks, for good or ill.

As such, it has an extremely disorganized military, each family possesses its own small army that could potentially add up with every other families to make a real one. small groups of heavily trained men are the norm.

There aren't even proper numbers, battalions, or the like. they just take like groups of soldiers, give 'em a name, and that's it.

In fact, the 903rd actually sounds more like it a Terran military organization than anything. A group of ordered professionals willing to do anything for their master, yet unconcerned with morality.

As for alignment, Sevarious lacks that selfishness, greed, and ambition that identifies those of dark affinity. He sounds more like earth, or water.

As for gear, slightly too advanced. Okay, way too advanced. the stuff you listed exists, but I can't let you have it at the start. Maybe they confiscated his best gear when he was relieved from duty (and they would, there's like what, 400 suits of plasteel armor in existence?) The rule for tech is that if it's more advanced than dieselpunk (it's like steampunk WWII) you can't start out with it. That would be like letting people start with time travel spells. (though the shield looks balanced enough).

and don't feel too bad, I grill everyone like this (except TurboTuber, he's a fucking potato and thus awesome)

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Ollumhammersong said
Name: Sevarious

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

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Lucius Cypher said
Yeah, what do you want Free?

There are many unpleasant things in this world but you being jesus is not one of them.

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Took you long enough JAYSUS.

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Rtron said
To be fair, that's only a few games. There's still plenty like Inquisition and Shadow of Mordor and Evolve. Anyways, join the club. Spyro, Bandicoot, Jak. They're all doomed to be raped, stripped of what made them great and then shot behind the shed with no one noticing. Except for us, the miserable few. Hell, they've already done it to Bionical...

Lucius Cypher said
I remember Jak and Daxter.I was six years old. Christmas of 2001. I had a PS1, but I never really got to play it because of my brother and sister. But the PS2 was mines, at least for that short while. Jax and Daxter was a mystical world with strange people I didn't understand, but at the same time knew so well that it both comforted and scared me. I didn't know what was in the water but I knew that I should swim in it. I knew that the ogres were evil despite no inclination in doing any harm to them, thus saving my life often. I never finished the game because, yo, I was six years old. I had a hard enough time fighting that one lava boss. But it showed me a world that was new to me, yet a place that I could think of and know that I have been there.Unfortunately though my years, my memory is not as well as it used to be. Jak and Daxter has not been forgotten, merely a vague memory that haunts me to this day. I cannot say that I had the same attachment as you have Free, but for what it's worth, I know the feeling of anger and sorrow that comes with seeing that source of happiness past slip into the forgotten future.

That's what we are then. the lonely few, standing an eternal vigil for the forgotten. Yes, the forgotten. It's only been ten years, but the world has moved on, not even bothering to say goodbye. I'll miss you, early 2000's, but I'll never forget.

The Irish Tree said
Not gonna lie...its too damn short. Like, maybe 6 hours long if you don't suck ass at Rachet and Clank.But it has some cool weapons.

At least it's a thing...

Rtron said
Oh I've got both. Just never got into them. My PS2 days were spent on games like Spyro and Battlefront.

Then you have no excuse! it's twenty bucks! three great games for the price of a third of one!

Fire Emblem: The Sword of Conquest

I have changed my signature, for I am a disciple of the old ways!

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Rtron said
Never really got into the Jak games.

Then you're missing out. I'd get a PS2 if I were you. they're pretty damn cheap now, I got mine for fifty bucks. The Jak games tend to go for around 15 bucks each on amazon.

If you've got a PS3 you can get the HD collection with the three main games for about twenty bucks from gamestop, but I wouldn't advise buying a PS3 just for that.