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Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

We have decided to end the current thread on Roleplayer Guild due to most players having left due to IRL work and other factors.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

IC Thread for the Noble Arms RP

New around here!

Hi! Yep. The title says it. New kid on the block! I’m XxArronax, but please, call me Arro. Rp has been my passion since I was a kid and I took a long break from it when I hit high school. Maybe... ten years ago- jeez that’s long. Anyway! I digress! Trying to get back into rp now that I’ve found time again, please bear with me. :D

@XxArronax

Happy to see someone rekindling old passions; can't wait to find out what you're interested in.

Shattered Steel - A Real Robot Anime Inspired Mecha RPG in a multidimensional world

Character Name: Laurence Collinsworth (Laurent Helreach)

Callsign: Deutragonist.

Sex/Gender: Male/Male.

Race & Species: Human (Half-Creel).

Age: 18.

Appearance:

Hidden for Size

Demeanour: He's happy with his life, happy with Sanctuary, and happy with his boyfriend, Urien Sanctus, whom he loves and respects dearly. Deep in his heart, Laurence suppresses the ambitious feelings common to all Creel or Creel-blooded, finding them a taint that reminds him of his mother, whom he hates and fears and who only carried him to term on a whim, seeking a pawn whom she can use to embed a dagger inside Sanctuary. He is ambivalent to his birth father as well, who smuggled him into Sanctuary, then realized that he can use 'Laurent' to claim the Imperial Throne, or at least foment civil war inside the nation that had enslaved him. For what it's worth, he sees Urien's parents as more worthy of love than his' own are, and hopes to call them in-laws one day.

Personal History: Even the Empress of the Creel had her whims and pleasures, and plenty of slaves to attend to her. Before she became Empress, she allowed herself to become pregnant by one of them, hoping to use the resulting child as her private weapon and assassin, to be trained as an agent against their enemies. The slave she used, however, found out about her plan and as revenge, escaped with the baby as soon as he was born and named, and more importantly, took a 'Claimant Box', one of the relics of the Imperial Family used to provide some order to challenges for the throne, with him. This slave managed to escape to Sanctuary, where he found asylum, but not a true home; that can wait for when the child grew up, his own dagger into the heart of the enemy's nation.

For the first few years, Laurent was raised by his father, who taught him how to read, write, do sums, and the basics of politeness and courtesy. But as the boy grew up, the father turned to drink and drugs and Sanctuary's child protective services stepped in as quick as lightning, putting him into foster care with the Sanctus Family. There, Laurent found love and affection and people to care about; Oswald and Elaine Sanctus and their son Urien, plus Urien's little sister, Beatrice/Betty. Urien, his light and love, and also the darkness that was benign, the night of sleep and security. He would protect them from anything; he vowed, and when Urien grew up and joined the military, he followed.

In the intervening time, he found out from his birth father that he was the son of the Empress of the Creel, and was given the 'Claimant Box' that had been stolen a long time before from the enemy's treasury. A long-suppressed fire began flickering inside him, kept from burning out of control only because of what could happen to Urien and his adopted home...

Special Skills:

Swordsmanship - Laurence/Laurent knows how to fight with a sword as a proper duelist would; this is important if he is to earn the respect of his future opponents, and hopefully, subjects.

Oratory - Laurence/Laurent is good at public speaking, at playing into an audience's feelings and thoughts, and changing that audience's crowd and mood to the direction he desires.

Pyroknesis (Minor) - Laurence/Laurent can light small fires, up to a campfire-sized blaze, with his thoughts and mind alone. Useful for survival out in the countryside.

Personal Weapons & Gear:

- The standard gear and the PADD.
- A Red Macaw Keychain given to him by Urien's little sister, Beatrice.
- A Civilian PADD containing video games, e-books, and other means of amusement; all potentially classified information is kept out.
- The 'Claimant Box', is a small cube containing the Coat of Arms of the Helreach Family that only opens when fed with the blood of someone with their DNA. This box transmits a signal to the Imperial Capital, announcing not just the existence of the person who fed it with their blood and their genetic credentials, but also that they are claiming the Imperial Throne; a challenge that no member of the Imperial Family can deny. To use this box is an irrevocable step, not just for Laurence/Laurent, but for his allies.

@Silverwind Blade

Shattered Steel - A Real Robot Anime Inspired Mecha RPG in a multidimensional world

So, are there any more characters forthcoming and any other interest and activity?

Everyone seemed pretty keen over on the interest check, but now the OOC is up... it all seems a bit dead.

I'll wait another few days, but if there's nothing else happening and no further activity, then I'm probably going to call the game dead, because it's been almost a week and there's been no real activity, and I'd be expecting at least some kind of engagement and activity at this point.

Admittedly, I have been on holiday, but at the same time; there's only so much I can do to stir up hype. I've posted the OOC, I've posted a wealth of information on the setting and background, and I've posted my own character as an example so...

@Silverwind Blade

I've been trying to free up time for my second OC, but I've been distracted trying to recruit for my own.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

Currently Active Characters (Including GMPCs and NPCs):

Noel Alonso (GMPC)

Lei Qingshe

Nil (GMPC)

Henri Janessens

Nikolay and Cuong + Lotus Squadron (Former PCs, now NPCs used with their player's permission)

Myron Makaraig (GMPC)

Iker Orozco (GMPC)

Sister Marta Rocha

Amadeo Balagtas (GMPC, Imprisoned by the Enemy NPCs)

Cristina Bernadino

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

This looks pretty interesting. Quite keen.
Can I be a pain and ask for some brief details of the current active team composition?
I'd like to fill a gap and don't really wanna accidentally copy another players character.

@Dark Light

Sure; it'll be easier on the OOC Discord Server, though, so can you join it?

The invite link is in the OOC Opening Post.

Edit: Nevermind, I compiled a list.

Currently Active PCs, GMPCs, and Combat NPCs List:

Noel Alonso (GMPC)

Lei Qingshe

Nil (GMPC)

Henri Janessens

Nikolay and Cuong + Lotus Squadron (Former PCs, now NPCs used with their player's permission)

Myron Makaraig (GMPC)

Iker Orozco (GMPC)

Sister Marta Rocha

Amadeo Balagtas (GMPC, Imprisoned by the Enemy NPCs)

Cristina Bernadino

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

Let me know if this needs improvement.

@Blitzyboi

What's your time zone and how many hours of free time do you have? We can talk this over on Discord if you want?

That said, yes, the sheet needs improvement from beginning to end.

If you're going to use a written description for appearance, please make it a paragraph long; this isn't the Free RP section, and while we're still more lenient than Advanced, one sentence saying your character is a mature woman who wears fashionable clothing without elaborating just what makes her a mature woman and not specifying what fashionable clothing she wears even though there are all sorts of fashionable clothing and not all of them are appropriate for a battlefield does not work for a description.

This is the same for your Noble Arm's Abilities (that said, I like how they are not overpowered), your Personality, and your Biography, the latter which is the most flawed section. How is she a kindhearted woman? What made her that way? Why does she have an interest in technology and swordplay?

How is she complex and how does she act in a way that first impressions vary?

You can edit your character sheet to include your answers, by the way, and just tell us if they're edited.

Noble Arms: The ASEAN War, Mission Three (Recruiting for an Ongoing RP)

Noble Arms: The ASEAN War, Mission Three (For an Ongoing RP)


Not actually Jinghong Dam, but close enough.
The Main Thread
OOC Discussion Discord
Background Lore Document

Seven decades ago, the Computer Scientist Alan Turing invented an 'Occult Programming Language' that made magic real. The most common form that 'magic' took was the Noble Arm, which was the ability to conjure up a supernatural weapon that can defy the laws of physics, a weapon bound to the user’s mind and soul; summoned by their will into reality. For reasons that are still unexplainable despite years of research, Noble Arms only take the form of weapons from before the First World War, however, despite the antiquity of these forms, the power they bear to the battlefield is unlike anything modern technology has been able to produce.

• The ability to manipulate the elements to the user's will.
• Forces that can reduce matter down to atoms in seconds.
• The strength to withstand the explosion of a nuclear missile.

It is now 2022, and the world is both different and similar to how History should have gone. Trying to redress its humiliation in this timeline's 1988, the current rulers of China have launched an invasion of Southeast Asia, forcing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to attempt a collective defense. Foiled twice now, first in their attempt to land at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, then mauled in the Spratly Isles by their own countrymen, the Qing Restoration Society (who are not relevant to this current mission), the People's Liberation Army have decided to choke the Mekong River, a stream vital to the livelihoods of the populace of Mainland Southeast Asia, by using their control of Jinghong Dam, a hydroelectric dam built on a crucial point of the river's course.

Over the past few weeks, paddy fields have dried up, thousands of livestock, waterfowl, and wildlife have starved to death, and rice prices skyrocketed to the point of catastrophe. All the while, the PLA generates vital electricity for their war effort.

Even worse, the PLA has placed several Prisoner-of-war camps immediately downstream from the dam, where illegally enslaved captives are worked almost to death and only survive as they are vital human shields to deter any attempt to destroy the dam's structure. They must be rescued, and the Anti-Air emplacements at the dam's sides disabled, so that the Mekong River can be free once more!

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This is an interest check for an ongoing RP, Noble Arms: The ASEAN War, which is now in its third mission and fifth story arc, where the OCs are trying to free PoWs that are being used as human shields to protect a dam that their opponents are using to choke off their allied countries, then call in an airstrike to destroy said dam.

You have the option of playing Arms Masters, people that through personal development, positive or negative, have manifested a Noble Arm, a weapon formed from and linked to, but not part of one's soul. You can also be ordinary but not unimportant service-folk/service people: Special Forces Infantry, Air Force Pilots, Marines, Boat Drivers, or even spies working for ASEAN in Chinese territory.

Antagonists need special permission from all three members of the GM Council (Being Recruited).

The details of Mission Three are listed below:

Detailed Mission Three Summary

Mission Three: Assault on Jinghong Dam

Before the ASEAN War, the Chinese built a dam to control the flow of the Mekong River and generate power for its people, as well as to exert a means of influence over the neighboring countries downstream, the ASEAN members Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and the furthest south of Vietnam. Now that the ASEAN War is escalating, China has slowed down the water flow to a trickle, raising fears of drought while increasing their electricity supply for their war effort. Even worse, the Chinese have placed PoW camps in the floodplains below the dam in order to deter airstrikes. Your goals, Arms Masters and Ordinary Folk are to evacuate the PoWs and then destroy the dam...

Jinghong Dam

Mekong River


(Red Circle is the Dam, Red Stars are the PoW camps.)

You can find the Lore in the Noble Arms Lore Thread and the Character Sheet Skeleton in the The OOC Thread. The OOC Thread also has copies of the parts of the lore relevant to actually playing the game.

Rules

1.) Cooperative storytelling comes first; prospective players should not seek to game or break the system to make themselves as powerful as possible. One should also not use one's PC's powers to brute-force all obstacles the GM brings before them, or use sophistry, psychological tricks, or 'mental influence magic' to win every diplomatic confrontation. This is not an RP where 'storygaming' is an ugly word.
2.) Nor does an angsty backstory that fits various 'story beats' make one's character good if their purpose is to defeat everyone and establish themselves as the 'top dogs' and otherwise make it an arms race with the GM on who can god-mode more. If one won't use their angsty backstory to make a good story, this is not the RP for them.
3.) That said, powerful characters and angsty backstories are permitted, as long as they are made by players who are willing to cooperate with each other and the GM to make a good and dynamic story that isn't just 'X overpowers Y' by bending the rules so far they break, violating the spirit of said rules and (to quote Dave Brookshaw of Onyx Path publishing) common sense.
4.) The first three rules are the most important; let's just say that people who cannot follow them have proven problematic before, and it's best that we have people who can follow the first three rules in this RP.
5.) Do not be an asshole.
6.) Post length is five sentences minimum, but longer posts are encouraged, of course. GMs are also bound by this rule.
7.) Characters are supposed to start out no higher than B-Rank in statistical average on their Noble Arm. Note that exceptions can be made for one (two at the most) players who can be trusted to control themselves and not powergame when it weakens the story.
8.) 1 US Dollar is 55 Philippine Pesos - Remember this when you spend money.
9.) Reminder: The more powerful you are, the lower your Potential stat is. If you want high Potential, you need to make a weak Noble Arm that can get stronger later.

Sure thing ~u^

I'm an avid Roleplayer, what else should I say? I'm not a master at typing, but I know what I imagine. I want to have antogonistic duels, escapades, adventures, epics, ultimately dance with a Princess of the Cosmos.

@Yamaha XT250

I have an RP with all of those except for that last one, for all it's worth... :P

Noble Arms: The ASEAN War