Gowi

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

Sorry ive lost a bit of track of the posting, are the new arrivals getting off the train now?

@Dynamo Frokane

Yes. The Alvarez post sets that up, end of page 1.

Green Arrow — The Most Dangerous Game

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_{“I’m not afraid of the police. But you? I might make an... exception. Do you have to go to a specialist store to fit into those pants? That can’t be cheap.”}

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The imp’s wide smirk dropped into a scowl.

“Mumbo?! You beckon that wand-toting nothing as my superior?! To the all-powerful Mxyzpltk? How dare you! You miserable second rate Batman clone!”

A loud gravely sigh left the orange suit-bearing being. “Okay, I get it. Funny funny funny! The game is yet to make sense, so we’ll see how speedy you lot come to a conclusion with no hints to the objective! Enjoy the game, my fellows!”

There was a flash of inter-dimensional energy and Mxyzpltk had disappeared faster than he had debuted to the trinity of archers. This was particularly frustrating to the Oliver Queen that was designated as “number three” by the magical imp only minutes prior. His “other self” had gone and robbed him of a chance to understand what exactly was going on, Mxyzpltk was an insane and eccentric being but he would’ve at least given him half-answers to his questions— though they would probably be accompanied by clownish giggles and keks instead of the full understanding he wanted. But as far as he was concerned answers muddied with giggles and keks were better than no answers at all.

“Great. You went and spooked him. Good job, clown town.” He sighed, a little irritably but not aggressively.

As he shot out the comment he thought back to the comment. He made a pun about his sister? Was Emiko in danger or was the egotistical imp just playing mind games with him? A chill ran down his spine as he looked over the other two versions of who he was— trying to gather a clue about them from their mannerisms, dialogue, and cues.

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ALVAREZ

DEPOT STATION, NEW ANCHORAGE
_{AROUND NOON}

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“URTU-07.” The voice of Matthew Alvarez could barely be heard over the sound of screeching metal and hot steam as the tram finally had arrived at New Anchorage’s operational base.

After Graham had asked him about reconfirmation about the time, Matthew had decided to prepare for the greeting as it was a great deal of his job as operations administrator to do so. Truth be told, while he preferred Graham’s direction compared to how Sophia handled things there wasn’t much of a difference in terms of adding new pilots to the operation’s roster. He had done it when Stein Kalfox was incorporated and here he was doing it with the new recruits that came in for their application. Then again, half-a-dozen pilots would take tasking more thoughts than one or two. But he had tasked mundane non-NC pilots in greater amount, so he figured this wouldn’t result in much difficulty. He stood there with datapad in hand, as he adjusted the glasses.

As he awaited the doors to open and the New Anchorage passengers to exit, he waved one of the depot coordinators over. His tone was flat and quiet, but somehow through all of the racket he was audible. “Ms. Pryde.”

“Yes, operations administrator?”

“I want the transport units working fast and efficiently— each NC should be in the NC hangar before Graham steps foot in there. Do you understand?”

“Yes, I’m on it.”

If there was one thing Sophia abandoning New Anchorage did it was increase its efficiency— one of the central reasons Matthew was quite favorable towards Graham’s organizational overhaul. Though, there were many differences of opinion about Graham as soon as he showed up and started “barking” even though Matthew disagreed that the barking was unwarranted. He thought back to the complaints that the Head of NC Analysis before James Lofgren was spouting likening Graham as a “despot”, “corporate wolverine”, and “psychopath”. Matthew had been more than happy to give him his official dismissal. Unfortunately, he wasn’t the first one to share discontent with Graham out of addled paranoia and a lot of the operation took a bit of a hit for it. Infantile emotions had no business of existing when there was a job to do. But New Anchorage recovered from it and was all the better for it. Good riddance.

Ending his thought, he nodded as his hands waved her off, “Good. Go.”

Matthew flipped through the datapad with a pen as he looked over the dossiers he had compiled, though he did so briefly. While he remember the information in his memory he still was helpful to look it over. He was good with information and knowledge… less so with faces. His datapen stopped on a name and face he recognized more than the rest— John Strange or rather as some of the other pilots knew him as, Jingo. It was good to have a familiar proven pilot returning back to New Anchorage. Unlike the rest of the motley crew of pilots, Graham probably wouldn’t require him to go through the introductory process; it would be pretty simply to renegotiate his contract.

He moved his attention to the time in the corner of the datapad. 12:06.

Any minute now.

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Character

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—PILOT—

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“Few have the opportunities of escaping the machine that is corporatocracy; those people are called the strong and those who suffer in their shadow are the weak.”

Name

Anastasia Kalfox
Stein

Appearance

Stein is youthful in appearance, though that is a far oversimplification of how she appears to others. Expressed by scowls, grimaces, and narrowed brows; Stein has a vicious temperament towards social and military scenarios alike. Her hair is a pale blonde that is supplemented by what many have called “icy, emotionless” eyes. Her casual attire, when she cares for it, is decidedly practical resulting in fitted clothes for appropriate weather conditions but not forsaking mobility. Stein’s body isn’t very tall though, which only aids in her somewhat youthful appearance; setting in at about 5’5”.

Age

20

Role

Hybrid (Assault, Support)

Personality

Cold and calculating, Stein is a product of her environment. Raised to be the perfect soldier for Volkov International Security, Stein’s morality is a hard question to answer as she has never really had a moral compass of her own. Operating for the corporation from a young age, she had been conditioned several times over as corporate instructors drilled in countless lessons that planned to make her content with the actions of the company and no one else. After countless battles, Stein has found herself not only distanced from “normal” human reactions and beliefs but also particularly vicious in her resolve thus gathering her the title of “Little Dragon” amongst other corporate soldiers. Beyond her fire & ice-esque exterior it isn’t quite certain if she has emotions such as sympathy or empathy.

Backstory

Those born in the dominion of the Volkov Corporation are raised with three priorities— the good of the corporation, the survival of the citizens under it, and the success of the individual. Anastasia Kalfox was born the daughter of a company man, one of the many members of the prestigious Board of Directors of the Seattle branch. A self-described “company man”, Anastasia’s father was a man of passion and influence. The lack of a presence of a mother figure in the young girl’s life led her to primarily take cues from her father as well as the company’s values. However, Anastasia’s father cared little about parentage which became abundantly clear when he saw his daughter as another way to gain influence and prestige.

Initially his idea was to groom Anastasia as a possible bargaining chip for an arranged marriage… that is until she showed aptitude and potential as a prospective mech pilot when testings showed she had the capacity to link with a Neural Combatant system. After this realization, Anastasia was instead groomed as a corporate soldier rather than a corporate bride. For Anastasia’s father, it seemed his instincts with his daughter to advance his station were perfectly correct and thus began Anastasia’s career as a militarized pawn at the age of ten. Taking mentorship under Field Captain Roxa Vox, Anastasia soon found her emotions broken to which she earned the nickname of “Stein”. Given the NC, the “Little Dragon” the name of Stein Kalfox would come to be a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield and off of it. Eventually gaining more and more renown in North America, Stein would eventually gain the respect… and envy of her comrades.

By the age of twenty, Stein had evolved into a creature of battle; a creature who only felt peace in her NC. However tragedy resulted when her father had his entire career put on trial after “suspicious circumstances” came out that he was trading company secrets for profit. As a byproduct this resulted in the removal of Stein’s reputation, resources, status, and camaraderie within the company; a company that would hastily abandon her during the middle of a mission in the Alaskan territories which resulted in severe damages to Stein’s NC. Left for dead with a half-blown NC, relieved of resources, and “thrown away” to New Anchorage she was now forced to work independently as she wondered why everything she had been branded was now non-existent.

Her time at New Anchorage, so far has been fruitful despite going through two commanders and feeling an unnerving emotion return to her. She has taken well to some of her new “comrades” such as Jan Van Gent, but still has yet to get used to much of her team. The new commander, Michael Graham, however is watching her very closely.

Tactical Preference & Skills

Due to her conditioning, Stein is particularly skilled given the wealth of her military training and combat experience which includes training in close quarters combat, standard battlefield tactics, physical conditioning, and firearms. However these are only a few of Stein’s advantages as she lacks in-depth understanding of things outside of corporate concerns, moral expectations, and so forth. Her preference in her non-mecha skills are a tie between close quarters combat and firearms; going for an agile combat basis utilizing handguns.

Notes

Stein doesn’t know how to process “everyday” life; including personal emotions, relating to others, hobbyism, art, and so forth. She only understands things in the ways of corporate and military interests which makes her pretty confused in the current situation she is in. Her Neural Plug sync rate is above 98%.

Text Color

0076a3 / Blue

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—NC—

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Codename

Little Dragon

Appearance

Painted in a coat of cobalt and silver with chrome framework; the “Little Dragon” doesn’t intend to appear titanic in appearance with little to no overbearing designs and instead more practical additions.

Body & Type

Medium

Equipment & Armaments

Modified by Stein and tailored to her personality by Volkov engineers, the “Little Dragon” has a good deal of ‘extra content’ such as:

Anti-Armor Machine Gun System: A modified MEK-50 machine gun system designed with anti-tank ballistics in mind; this modification allows for more ammo capacity. Stein favors this over a Railgun simply due to reaction speed even if it has a far more disposable ammunition.

Personal Defense Lightshield: Based on the experimental AEGIS-01, this lightshield is created in a way similar to a lightsword (energy, plasma, etc) to block incoming melee strikes. It uses about as much power as a railgun but over a sustained amount of time. Can cause power malfunctions and brownouts if used over capacity.

Anti-Personnel Crowd Control System: A vanilla VGKW-04 missile launcher spread meant to deal with soft targets.

Short Thrusters: The standard of the majority of current model NC’s, the “Little Dragon” has small use pulse thrusters to traverse small cliffs or avoid crowded scenarios.

EMP Flares: A small amount of EMP flares are also on board to allow for radar jamming and other utilities.

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

I do need to flesh out the base NPCs anyway!

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Want a CS or how would you like them?

@Voltus_Ventus

Send whatever details you want to send me in PM. I will use it appropriately. Hangar needs more NC technicians anyway.

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Thank you! If you need any details I'd be happy to give them.

@Voltus_Ventus

Do send them!

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@Gowi In the old RP, there were two NPCs that I made that were the mechanics for The Wessex, do you think they can still be there? I can even make character sheets for them too if you want.

@Voltus_Ventus

They are probably still about in the hangar, yeah.

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So, this is coming up and this largely my fault. But assumptions are being made of the setting due to LHG’s long-running IRC continuity. But let me be clear here— this is NOT that. In many ways this continuity we have here is an alternate variation and lore should not be presumed. I should’ve worked harder on the infodump (which I will rectify) but this is me nipping this in the bud.

The correct term for the internet of the 27th century that I will be using is the Hypernet.

Pilots on the tram unless they have long-standing histories or information do NOT have elaborate dossiers of their to-be comrades. It is like going to a business interview blind; the only thing they know about the New Anchorage cab is that it has pilots who are going for the job as well as other individuals going to New Anchorage on their own business (like Ingram).

If I have not elaborated enough on the adapted setting please let me know.

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I suggest slowing down and working on pacing, @Letter Bee, and not over interacting with other players before you completed your interaction with me. You we're the one after all that wanted our two characters to interact and now you wanna jump the gun for a second interaction with others?

I can very easily leave the conversation when your Alex and go off to collab elsewhere, but that could end up meaning I will less likely interact with you in the future as I don't know whether we will have a decent story element to build on or it'll end abruptly for you to just to the next character that seems to be free for interaction.

@NuttsnBolts

I’d also like to point out that Nuts lives in Australia so please do not try to box them out by doing too many collabs or at least too many collabs that sort of disallow him from interacting with others due to his schedule. If a collab takes a few days to become a post that’s fine— and always be transparent about collabs in the future! Also, there is nothing wrong with writing short posts and interacting that way instead of just making our posts drawn out collaborations!