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Mass Effect: Harpocrates

I am very much interested in joining a Mass Effect RP.

@Mao Mao

It's been a minute for you, hasn't it?

Mass Effect: Harpocrates

Sure why not

Be warned I'm a hack

@Lady Lascivious

So am I!

Mass Effect: Harpocrates

@LetMeDoStuff

@Yam I Am

Do you really think you can drag him out of retirement?

Mass Effect: Harpocrates

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The Overhead

Mass Effect: Harpocrates is a series of stories set in the Mass Effect universe starting in 2183, three years before the devastating invasion of the Milky Way by the threat that will come to be known as the Reapers. Optimistically, the storylines presented will gradually take us through and past the events of the Reaper Invasion.

Players will create individuals who have been recruited as part of a response team tasked with operations that range from search and rescue, investigation, subterfuge, and more.

How Did We Get Involved In This?

This is the question that all six members of the Harpocrates Initiative will be asking themselves sooner or later.

Your character is a specialist. A person who has spent their life trying to figure things out and as a byproduct obtained an assortment of skills that make them one of the very best at what they do and generally being the best at what they do gets guns pointed at them. Often. For one reason or another, your character is either in dire straits or consistently unhappy in whatever that current situation they are in and are receptive to getting a job offer–a discreet, low information job offer in their inbox from the ExoGeni Corporation, a interstellar company headquartered on Eden Prime. It is a curious one, given the peculiarities of the offer to meet with the chief CEO of the company as soon as possible. It doesn’t take long for them to be on route to Eden Prime within days of the message.

The offer, as it turns out, is on a “need-to-know” basis. NDA’s are signed. ExoGeni has a dire situation about an attacked facility of theirs. They need a response team that goes beyond their current operatives and one that is away from the eyes of accountability of both the Systems Alliance and any other governing body. Your character, being an independent contractor, is offered the job of a lifetime but it is also riskier than anything they’ve ever encountered before. Something about the job compels them to say yes beyond the pay. It isn’t long before they are suiting up for a job with five other people. Five other specialists.

And so it begins.

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Basically the jist. Trying to see if anyone is up for this. In a Mass Effect mood. Blame people. Declare interest people.

Interested Parties:
- @Lady Lascivious
- @Mao Mao
- @Heat
- @Supermaxx
- @Theyra
- @KaiserElectric
- @Fading Memory
- @Drag

Pariah Online: A Voyage into the Intangible Aether

Location: Mystic Prophecy Chapterhouse, The City-State of Thorinn, Aetheria

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Alja’s insistence for the group to essentially get lost was odd, but the Japanese girl wasn’t stupid. Her apathy didn’t mean she didn’t get social cues that people had personal business to handle.

“If you’re sure.” Rael uttered, as she took a disinterested breath.

She eyed Benkei and Kazuki, not sure if Alja’s insistence was going to work on them, but then again the two of them really didn’t want to be in Mystic Prophecy’s chapterhouse much to begin with, so maybe Alja’s suggestion for them to either meet her there or do something else. Rael thought back to Benkei’s comments on the road. He wanted to eye apprenticeships. It was something. Perhaps Kazuki had something he wanted to do instead, which given Luci was less than seven feet from him, was probably the case.

“Thanks Luci. We’ll keep that in mind.” She managed, “Benkei, Kazuki. We done here?”

What Are You Listening To?

Steal Away The Light

Location: Uhladein, Eastern Marches

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“You can thank the void that you have a use in this world.” Galiel glared at the young woman, unamused by her petulant angst.

The life she had chosen was harsh and necessary, but it was one she had taken into her hands away from a life of luxury in the capital. Of the hunters he had met before the horde of void met with Uhladein’s walls she had been one of two he knew by reputation alone. And she was the worst of them all–a Midnosian.

Uhladein had always been significant and independent. It served as the western fortress as part of Edelen, a buffer state between Midnos and Aulrithia. Since Aulrithia’s fall to the void it became even more important as the void swallowed more and more of the imperial heartlands. He had been a young man when that day happened. Any sort of empathy he had for anyone, let alone soulless weapons crafted by dark magicks was null. This wasn’t to say he didn’t appreciate the void hunters, but their sacrifice was something that wasn’t forced on them. It was their choice, whoever they were before. Galiel was a pyromancer and an old one at that. Had he not been he would not have survived his involvement in the war and he wouldn’t be the most important person in the city as it stood.

Without pyromancers the void would have everything. In his view, women like Quinnlash should know their place.

His eyes moved back to the flame as the younger pyromancers took to tending to it. The fire elemental’s crystalline core glowing bright and shooting flame into the sky. Most of his apprentices were young, but they would get over their nerves. He just hoped the next time the void struck at them they would have steel in their resolve instead of mud.

He moved to one of the window arches as he looked across the city. There would be a need of geomancers to repair the damages. He would have to make a request as everything in the stronghold of a city got back to normal.

“I’m sure the Pyromancer-Queen would be disappointed if she heard you talking to me like this.” He coldly remarked as he looked toward the walls. “I’d be quick to tell her if you choose to keep irritating me. Now, be a good girl, and go downstairs and convene with the others. I’ll have your orders soon.”

You Can Become a Hero!

Location: Outside Ishin Academy, Sapporo

@Asura

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“You know, I hear smoking’s bad for you.”

A voice cracked through the cold, Hokkaido morning as a girl approached the cigarette-smoking girl, with a cup of ramen in her hand.

Hidaka Honoka wasn’t much of one to keep her thoughts in her head. It was a new thing she had been trying ever since she had taken the trip from her village in the deepest part of Hokkaido to Sapporo. In this case, she had failed at that practice, though she didn’t think it’d do much good. She had read manga from the local library in her village, so she was expecting to run into someone like this in the city at some point. A depressed loner smoking outside of the school? It was a pretty common thing as far as she knew.

“You’re too bored to wait in the event hall, too, huh?” Honoka mused, trying to change the topic while the girl blankly stared at her for a few seconds as she leaned back against a tree, moving the noodle-laden chopsticks to her lips. No need to keep the conversation about her health. The girl was dangerous and Honoka didn’t want to seem lame and judgy.

Besides, she knew what it was like feeling anxious about a new place. She had spent more time in Sapporo than she had inside the gates of Ishin.

For Honoka, it had been a lot of practicing and getting used to the city. She was from Hokkaido so if she was going to seem like the cool, approachable city girl and not the lame, weird country girl she was she needed to practice; and with practice came familiarity. She had spent weeks making sure her bumpkin accent didn’t accidentally sneeze outside of her lips. That was hard. The posture and look would come second. Hopefully, the girl in front of her didn’t have some kind of quirk that allowed her to see right through Honoka. That’d blow her cover. If she did... she’d probably cry a little on the inside. And the outside.

Age of Marvels - A Marvel Comics Roleplay [CLOSED]

I guess if we are speaking generally about plans, I'm going to say I've got some reworks in mind for the Kree and Shi'ar in terms of how their society functions, but generally they are still problems. They are still empires overall. I've decided to not put Carol and the Kree as adversaries in this version so I'll have my hands in the Kree pie pretty heavily. The big theme of Carol in the current state of things is her juggling Earth and the greater interstellar universe as best as she can, which leads to a lot of strife alongside her own emotional trauma issues and so forth.

I'm hoping to bring some nuance to the Kree and Shi'ar, when they are a lot of the time depcited pretty black-and-white, so hopefully I'll pull it off.

Really excited to working with Sep, Andy, and co. about those kind of things.

Age of Marvels - A Marvel Comics Roleplay [CLOSED]

Hell hath no fury like a Gowi approved.

@Bounce

Be careful with mocking me, fire boy. Hmph.