JaceBeleren

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

So I've now included both a lesson on basic turian digestive biology and a lesson on human/turian relations since the First Contact War in my posts, both unintentionally.

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

"It's Saren, so yes, you were a long way off. And-" Saren had a serious problem with this guy now. However, before he got any further, he stopped himself. He may have to trust Ravin with his life soon enough. He needed to be able to. "and you're right. We're not going to get far like this. If we are going to work together, this should end now. Agreed?"

In response to Ally's question, Saren responded "It's not just me: many turians dislike humans, whether it's excusable or not. It's a long story. First you've got the polar opposite societies: In turian society, you are expected to be utterly altruistic. A turian who sacrifices himself to save dozens of others will not be remembered any more than any others, because that's the decision every turian would make. Failing to make that kind of decision isn't a sin, it's an aberration. Doing so isn't a bad thing because it isn't a thing at all, in a turian's mind. Humans are the opposite. So many of them (no offense) are greedy and self-centred. They'd rather do a small thing for themself than a great thing for everyone else. That's what many turians have a problem with. First contact relations went poorly as well. When humanity first gained faster-than-light travel, dozens of other societies had already reached that point. Turians found a human ship about to commit a crime against the Council, the united civilisation of countless intergalactic species, by flying into illegal space. Since the turians have always possessed the greatest military might, they are the main policing force in Council borders. As such, they opened fire on the ship, destroying it and starting a small scale war, in which the rest of the Council intervened before it reached full scale. There were less than a thousand casaulties on each side, but three months of war is never a good start. And it was a war that cost me my brother. The turian point of view is that the humans reacted poorly and they were just doing their job. But even after the war, humanity displayed foolish arrogance and agression. After peace was established, humans began rapidly colonising empty planets. Some Council species have had FTL for thousands of years, yet in a few decades humanity controlled more planets than any other known species in the galaxy. Many of these colonised planets were being wasted - maybe only one or two tiny settlements yet legally the entire planet was theirs. Of the Council species, only three had a government representative, a Councillor: the asari, the salarians, and the turians. There were some races who'd been attempting to gain a Councillor for centuries, yet humanity had the audacity to request one after 26 years, without making any significant contributions to the rest of the Council species and using up a huge amount of resources. I hope you see now that I am not a petty bigot. I hope you exceed the expectations I placed on the rest of your race.

Later, when Charlotte asked Saren if he was a monster, he said "It depends on what you call a monster. I am definitely something very different to you, and I have done bad things in my life. I want to do good, though, and that's what I meant to do even at my worst. So I suppose we are a bunch of heroes, yeah."

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

Saren flinched a little at the sudden arrival of such an immense amount of candy - it was nothing like anything he'd ever seen. Was this a human thing, to make competition over generosity? It seemed a little self-defeating, since how can you both be genuinely dangerous and playing to win?

"I'm afraid I must apologise, though know I appreciate your generosity. I won't be able to eat that. Biological reasons." Saren spoke both to Charlotte and to Ravin, before making sure to point something out to Ravin. "And Ravin? We're going to be working together, but I've never liked humans. Your spread throughout the multiverse is commendable, and I will attempt to throw away my prejudice. However, I have no qualms with making an exception for you. Do not give me a reason."

Saren did not like Ravin. Did "government lapdogs" lead attacks on said government's centre of power? No, they did not. When Saren was younger, he might have hit Ravin. Shot him a few times, if it went well from there. But here he was surrounded by some of the most powerful creatures in existence, and they might not appreciate that. Frieza certainly wouldn't be happy, though how significant that would be was yet unknown. Still, apparently they had a nonlethal training centre here. Yeah, Saren would be using that one in the near future.

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

Saren raised his eyebrows (or rather, the part of his head where a human has eyebrows) at several of remarks of Frieza's speech. Clearly this creature held belief in its own abilities - whether it had good reason to where yet beyond Saren's ability to judge. Its choice of clothing was certainly atypical, as was its general biology and physical appearence. He was anxious to meet his squad's leader - whoever it once had been called a fool, but Saren himself had been called a fool when he had been allied with Soveriegn, and that had certainly been the logical answer, even if it suited Soveriegn more than it did galactic civilisation. His squadmate, Charlotte, made a surprising (though not completely illogical) remark about Frieza's clothing, before eating a brightly coloured form of human food... candy, possibly? Saren had not studied foreign diets extensively, but he thought this was apparently something of a delicacy among the Humans. It would be poisonous to him anyway, being made for beings with levo-amino acids rather than his own dextro-amino acids.

Saren was particularly unsure about having to work with humans. After the Relay 314 Incident, and Anderson's failed Spectre trial, he had developed a prejudice towards them. Fighting alongside them would not be something he was used to. Still, after the events that allowed the various universes to become linked, it became clear that humans were some of the most commonly existing sentient races throughout the multiverse. This might not be a coincidence, and with trillions upon trillions of them now in existence, how bad could their best be? He found out exactly how bad when John Freeman demonstrated his extradordinary capabilities.

"Saren Arterius, Citadel Spectre." Saren says, before realising know one knows what that means. "That is, I'm a government soldier charged with the defence of the galaxy answerable only to the highest levels of authority, with top-of-the-line gear and funding, and the authority to do as I choose in order to get my job done. Does that answer all of your questions?"

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

Saren Arterius

(Mass Effect 1 spoilers)

Name: Saren Arterius
Age: 44 (at his final appearance before death, turians have approximately human lifespans)
Gender: Male
Bio: Saren Arterius is a famous member of the Spectres. No turian has served with the Spectres longer, and he is considered the best of them (Spectres are an elite group working for the Council. No laws apply to them, they have free reign to anything they like, in order to defend galactic peace and safety). Even by Spectre standards, a lot of Saren's work was kept secret. There were many rumours involving his methods, but his results were undeniable. During the First Contact War, between humans and turians, Saren's brother was killed. This, combined with agressive human expansion after the war, resulted in Saren developing a strong hatred for humans. Despite his ruthless efficiency, he does follow two principles. The first is "Never kill anyone without a good reason". The second is "You can always find a good reason to kill someone".
There is a period in Saren's life which is very ambiguous - very little is known about his actions during this time. However, it is known that at some point, he discovered the reaper Sovereign, a machine-like intelligence of incredible scale. He had initially planned to use Soveriegn as a weapon. He thought it could control the geth - a synthetic hive-mind with impressive technology - to destroy the humans. However, when he discovered Sovereign, it showed him what it and the other reapers had done to thousands of galactic civilisations which are now little more than a handful of ruined buildings on a smaller number of planets. Saren saw that even if the galaxy's races could be united, they wouldn't be able to fight the reapers. He believed that the only way to survive was to follow the reapers, that servitude, though unfortunate, would be preferable to destruction. Sovereign disagreed.
Despite Saren's formiddable willpower, he soon became a slave of Sovereign. Unbeknownst to him, reapers are capable of gradually indoctrinating those who spend too long in their presence. Saren became both Sovereign's most useful agent and a face to lie its crimes on when they were discovered - everyone was convinced Saren was the true threat. Saren, leading the geth, made attacks on various locations throughout the galaxy, often being disrupted by the Human Alliance soldier and only human Spectre, Commander Shepard. These attacks eventually culminated at the Citadel, the center of Council power. Shepard confronted Saren a final time, either engaging the turian and killing him, or convincing Saren to kill himself, either way preventing Saren from opening the doors to a full reaper invasion.
Feats of strength: Saren's left arm is actually a grafted geth arm. With just this arm, he is capable of lifting a fully armed and armoured adult human, as he does to Shepard on Virmire. 40
Feats of agility: Saren has impressive reactions and is able to sprint effectively while carrying large amounts of gear. 50
Feats of toughness: Sovereign has bonded large amounts of metal (the type is unclear, but is clearly very strong) to Saren's skeleton. This considerably improves on his natural turian toughness (which was already a good start). He is also equipped with a high-grade kinetic barrier. This functions similarly to a typical "energy shield", but is ineffective against melee attacks. 40
Feats of intelligence: Saren is hardly academic, but his resourefulness and skill in battle tactics are significant. 30
Feats of willpower: Saren managed to overcome the full might of Soveriegn for a few seconds, just long enough to kill himself. While this was brief, the fact that it happened alone is more than most could achieve. 30
Feats of luck: Saren has performed no feats of luck. In fact, he is so ruthless and efficient that luck very rarely has a role in anything he does. However, he was phenomenally unlucky when he first discovered Sovereign. He spent the rest of his life a slave for it. 30
Feats of perception: Saren possesses excellent aim with most forms of firearm. Though he is not comparable to a skilled sniper, he rarely misses at medium range, and if anyone misses at close range they're either very inexperienced or doing it wrong. 50
Gear: Specter-grade (typically the highest-quality, non-prototype gear available. Spectres have very good funding) pistol, assault rifle, armour, hoverboard (don't know the technical name) and kinetic barriers.
Universe of Origin: Mass Effect

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Shadowrun 3E - A Walk in the Dark

"Very well. We are finished. Please remember that Shiawase has a lot riding on this, and that failure could be... inconvenient for you, should you still manage to get out alive. As I have described, the potential reaction from Renraku could be bad for Shiawase, unless the heist is a success. And for now, what is bad for Shiawase is bad for you." With that, Moryama Jun stood up, and walked to the door. "I expect we will meet again soon. Please try not to die before then." And she left.

Once A Warrior...

Still getting closer. Still, no true threat. And she'd hurt him? All the better. Let's give him something to worry about.

Aelith watched as the warrior made his charge. Unsurprising, but still, she might have to pay attention now. She was hardly one for battle tactics, preferring simple improvisation, but she recognised how she could gain the upper hand now. As planned, her opponent would be expecting her to retreat - clearly a doomed plan anyway, whoever this was, he was certainly faster than her. But did he expect a counter-attack, in the melee where he specialised? It seemed unlikely. And he'd seen magic before - enough to comment on her use of it and to relate her to another like herself (though much lesser, of course), and to remain unflinching even when attacked with it. The brave ones were always Aelith's favourites - it always seemed to be such a surprise to them when they realised they had lost and, well, their sense of honour was simply funny.

A lawless world was a fine one for a woman like Aelith. People were harder to push around, giving her more excuses to kill them instead. In a world like this, Aelith was basically free to do what she liked. Typically when a town or a city has problems on the scale of a Dark One like herself, they would organise an impromtu militia or hire momster hunters. Did a world like this have the capability to organise anything? Of course not. Where did that leave Aelith? Where she liked to be. At the top of the food chain.

Comments on the convenience of modern society aside, there was still a large man with a pair of swords charging at her. As long as he didn't attack her head, she'd probably be safe from the first swing. He was certainly close enough that her Doom Aura could cause problems for him - see how he likes that. He probably won't be expecting that, leaving him vulnerable to attack. Yes, while he's adjusting, Aelith could hurt him. And there's nothing like a boot to the gut to insult an armed opponent. This was going to be funny.

The Guild of Heroes, Villains, and everything in between: A multiverse guild roleplay.

No intent to rush this along, but when can we expect an IC post? (didn't want you to set yourself a deadline or anything, just want a general idea)