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The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

Free Faller said
What could be more fun than two manipulative liars with opposite moral standpoints being stuck working together? I don't see how that could possibly go wrong.

I wonder who'll work out how to manipulate the other first?

The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

Looks like Stuart and Alex will be working together a lot - when not tearing one another's throats out...

Pokemon Dystopia

I'd be building a new region from scratch but would want to use all 'mons released as of Gen VI including new fairy typing - though typing won't really be a thing in this. Battle mechanics would follow the basic law of common sense, regardless of what the actual types may be. There's no real reason why throwing a rock at a bird is more effective than punching it, so the type system would basically go out of the window.

The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

Interesting that Stuart is the youngest of the three characters so far - and also the most aggressive and bullish.

Pokemon Dystopia

I've gone through that situation enough times in the past where I work out a huge background, story and all that jazz and just had nothing back. I didn't want to risk wasting all that time, and the Interest Check would have to be in Advanced because I wouldn't want to GM in a different section - which, of course, reduces the pool of potential players compared to Casual.

Anyhoo, thanks for your interest. I'll keep this thread ticking over to see if there will be a sudden wave in popularity after you broke cover. :)

The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

Looks like Danny and Stuart are going to be at loggerheads - a lot.

>:D

The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

In the spirit of being patient, how long till the IC begins? :)

The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

Stuart Front

Name: Stuart Front

Appearance:

Age: 30

Sex: Male

Strengths:

• Hard-working: ain't nothing gets stuff done like a guy that gets stuff done, especially when he's well-researched, which Stuart makes sure he always is


• Socially intuitive: a good judge of character, a great deceiver and a brilliant pusher of peoples' buttons


• Agressive: while it's not a great character trait, Stuart can simply bully people into doing what he wants if he can't just persuade them


• Unprincipled: fighting dirty often works

Weaknesses:

• Vulnerable: while Stuart can and will be aggressive and even violent, it's only a matter of time before somebody punches him, and he will go down like a sack of spuds and he has no combat training


• Arrogant: pride comes before a fall


• Coward: crack his bullish exterior and watch him squirm


• Disloyal: there are no friends in this business (this business being whatever Stuart is doing)


• Closed-Minded: Stuart does not work flexibly, and will always go for the more rational solution to a problem - though the BUC doesn't always have rational solutions to its problems

Brief Biography: Stuart grew up the youngest brother of three siblings to a middle-class family in middle England. He was the youngest by far, and always a little spoilt and unfriendly. Nevertheless, a private school got him good grades and secured him a place at Oxford University, studying PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics), the course every powerful figure going into politics takes. While disinterested in party politics themselves, Stuart ensured that his name was around as a powerful figure, and the Conservative Party took him under their wing. Over nine years, Stuart rocketed through the ranks, not as a politician per se, but an adviser, press liason officer and general enforcer, making sure that those in the party, and often those not, did as instructed. Unfortunately for Stuart, he got a little too enthusiastic in his job, using close, and strictly speaking illegal ties with powerful figures in the press to sweep one wing of the party into power, taking, naturally, him with them into almost the top dog. However, a miscalculation and a botched alliance had him caught out before he could make the right moves – immediately, his name was in every newspaper. While ultimately acquitted from those crimes of corruption, his name being mud made it impossible for him to get another position anywhere near his old level and certainly never trusted in the United Kingdom again, he finally turned his attention to those letters he'd been receiving from the BUC.

Special Skills:

[*] Research, research, research and adhering to the mantra of knowing one's enemy

• Charm, manipulation, and PR strategy: he was a spin doctor, after all - he also knows what spin and cover-ups look like when he sees them

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our annoyances.

Miss Gallagher said
Good point. Many people try to make themselves out to be the opposite of what they feel they are IRL. So, girls who don't feel pretty want super pretty girls, and boys who feel lacking go for the super cut and handsome men. Not always true, but very likely so on many people.

And so it came to pass that Misery and Dissatisfaction should have a child. They named her... Mary Sue.

Accents In Roleplays.

Derpestein said
I've never heard of this, nor experienced it.Me, my mother and my sister have moved abroad to move in, and we've been here for several years.Accents and voices sound completely the same as before.Does it depend if you live in a certain country long enough? Lets say you were in Boston, developed a certain accent, for 30+ years, would a voice still change when moving away from home for an extended period of time?Because I have NEVER seen what you've said in your post. But it's my own personal experience and everyone has different experiences so...

It may be something more apparent here in the UK than in the US because the UK is notorious for having such a ridiculously huge selection of accents for really specific places. People can often tell exactly which of the nearby towns people come from just by hearing them speak. Perhaps people in the UK are slightly more in-tune with accents than in the US and so we're more fluid and/or more aware of accents' fluidity. I dunno if there are any other Brits kicking around this thread, but I'd be interested to see if it's just me/where I live, or a UK thing, or a universal thing Derpestein's just not noticed. xD

I'm vaguely reminded, as another example, of having done a French exchange to an area of France where the exclamation of pain like 'Ow' or 'Ouch' is pronounced 'Aye'. I was saying 'Aye' for pain for years - and still do sometimes.