MonsieurShade

Star Wars: A New Beginning

"Copy that Fixer. Let us know if something goes wrong in there, we'll...yell at you to fix it before we explode, or something." A deep and rumbling voice grunted mirthlessly. The owner of this voice was a large and somewhat rugged looking man by the name of Jacque Marduk, who was currently in the process of ensuring everything would be ready for the next job. It was a bit redundant, what he was doing, as clean ups were preformed shortly after the job had been completed. Still, Jacque liked the extra security that came with personally going over everything himself. He also enjoyed being able to do something aboard the ship until a job required his specific skill set or something heavy needed to be moved. Jacque was not a fan of being idle for too long. Idle hands made no credits.

Only when everything was exactly as he wanted to be did Jacque decide to stop. Once more the smuggler raised the comm to his mouth and thumbed the button as he started making his way to the upper deck, "Everything's clear down low. There's bit of corrosion on the hinges of the bay door though. Not sure what it's from, but we may have to look into that when we get planet side again.".
Once topside the slightly brighter lights of the upper deck reflected off of the man's goggles as he slid them up onto his shaven head. A pair of stone grey eyes flicked back and forth scanning, searching for something, a machine of great importance. When that machine was found the smuggler offered up a small smirk of satisfaction and strode over to it purposefully. Jacque reached out and pressed one of the buttons on the device. This mythical, almost holy device known as the Caf dispenser.

Jacque reached over to the nearby counter and plucked up a styrofoam cup, using his free hand to strum the top of the machine rhythmically with his fingers as the rich aroma of the brewing beverage filled the air. What fortune would this day bring? He could only wonder.

Monster Ops: Neutralization (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou RP reboot)

The Shade returneth! The Shade is also tweaked out on an almost unhealthy amount of caffeine! Mao's ready if everyone else is. I can easily skip past the process of him gathering his stuff since the post would've really only been used as a means of describing his room, but that can wait until Mao (or someone else) decides to actually give Kyosuke a tour of his new home.

War of The Angelic Trio

Just saying this as a heads up, i'm not going to have access to a computer from tomorrow, 2:30pm EST, up until some point either late sunday night or early monday morning.

Monster Ops: Neutralization (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou RP reboot)

Uh-oh guys, cuz of Misa now Kyosuke's



xD

@Turboshitter

kek
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Just saying this as a heads up, i'm not going to have access to a computer from tomorrow, 2:30pm EST, up until some point either late sunday night or early monday morning.

Star Wars: A New Beginning

@Sleater All right, sounds fine by me. finery seems into it as well, now we just need to see of the others that'll make up the crew are ok with it.
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Just saying this as a heads up, i'm not going to have access to a computer from tomorrow, 2:30pm EST, up until some point either late sunday night or early monday morning.

Star Wars: A New Beginning

@Sleater So the idea is that Fixer's met everyone before, right? It's a interesting idea, him (it?) being the one thing everyone had in common before they actually banded together. Though we would have to watch a bit for inconsistencies. With a bit of tweaking I wouldn't mind it too terribly, however it's not solely up to me. If the others agree them i'm down.

@POOHEAD189 Seeing as someone prior to you submitted a CS for the bounty hunter role it may very well come down to who can make the more interesting character, unless of course frapet is willing to have more than one hunter in the rp. It'd add an extra bit of difficultly for the crew, which is good for the sake of the role play in my opinion. I'm thinking this could go one of three ways if frapet accepts two bounty hunters: the first being that they two bounty hunters operate as separate entities entirely, the second is that they're willing to work together and split the profit, and the third is that they're competitors who aren't above doing something underhanded to ensure the other guy doesn't get the pay day before they do. Whichever way this goes it'll add a bit of pressure that helps us to avoid the monotonous rut that space opera types like this can get into.

Monster Ops: Neutralization (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou RP reboot)

Mao gave a somewhat awkward chuckle after Misa had left the room and Ryūko gave her approval of the idea. Once again he was left wondering if he'd taken his jeering a bit further than he'd meant to, 'Guess that's two apology cakes i'm bakin' later, da.'. Mao would have to question the flavor of the other cake later though, right now it seemed as though Smith was interested in bringing everyone in. The monkeyman's head slumped as he realized that, yet again, Smith was referring to everyone as 'girls'. "Y'know, just once i'd like it if she'd add "and Mao" when she addressed everyone. I'd settle for "girl's and monkey" really, da." He mused aloud before he processed everything that the agent had said prior.

Smith was bringing them in to question the folks who had attacked Kyosuke and the others earlier in the morning. She'd neglected to use the word 'interrogate', as that held the possible implications of threats and actions involving bodily harm. Well, more like promises given the nature of some of the members of the team. Mao himself generally preferred not to get violent outside of necessity, but from what he'd heard, those overgrown salamanders had tried to harm his friends. For that he was more than willing to make an exception to his 'do no harm' rule.

Another thought caused an irritable sounding chittering to emanate from Mao's throat. They'd done more than try to harm his friends, they'd tried to kill them. Mao's fur started to rise and ruffle a bit at the thought, his mouth curved upwards, lips pulled back tightly over his gums as his eyes scrunched and his nostrils flared. This was not the standard Mao smile. It more closely resembled a snarl, with all four of the large canine teeth in his mouth on display. Realizing that Kyosuke was still sitting in the room, the Vanara patted his fur down and plastered on a more benign expression in an attempt to avoid freaking out the human further "If we're gonna be sittin' in that boring questioning room again then i'm gonna go get my one of my handpans. Need something to do while i'm there, da. Also my bo staff, seems like this is gonna be one of those questioning sessions. I should probably pack a few snacks too, Misa may try to drink one of the poor bastards if they piss her off any further...", he trailed off as he got up and started leaving the room to collect the necessary supplies.

About half way out he stopped and turned to Kyosuke, his usual happy expression having returned once more "Usami-san's right though, we'll be there the entire time to make sure nothin' happens to ya, da.". With that being said, Mao disappeared down the hall "I wonder which handpan I should bring, da. Gotta be one of the small ones, don't wan't Smith to fuss at me some more...

Star Wars: A New Beginning

@frapetSorry for the late reply, but yeah thats fine by me. Jacque's main thing was actually getting and transporting the goods, whereas Krus appears to be more into selling them, so if anything they might be on good terms.

Star Wars: A New Beginning

@Sleater A very nice piece indeed, wouldn't mind cruising around in that!

any preferences on what your business is? or just smuggling and I make up some kind of goods?

@frapet

I'm down for smuggling being more of a side business with the shipping of legit goods being a cover/source of main income. Perhaps the crew could also do a few odd jobs between shipments based on what their field of expertise is in order to get a bit of pocket money.

Star Wars: A New Beginning

Name: Jacque Marduk
Race: Human (Sirpar born)
Age: 27
Occupation: ex-Smuggler (on paper at least), Muscle for hire.
Appearance: -
Like all humans born on his planet, Jacque is large and strongly built, standing at approximately 6'3" and weighing in at 92kg. His skin is a dark shade of brown- a result of the intense light of the sun on Sirpar and his eyes are dark grey. Jacque's body sports a few old and badly healed scars from a combination of deals that went sour, narrow escapes, and altercations during his time in prison.

Gear: Jacque keeps with him the basics like hygienic products and clothing, his more noteworthy possessions are:

• Welding goggles (he swears he feels naked without them after having worn them for so long back on his planet)
• DC-15 Blaster Carbine
• De-10 Blaster Pistol
• Vibro-dagger
• Hand held Comm device

Backstory up until flying on the [insert ship name here]: A native to the heavy gravity planet of Sirpar, Jacque was born into a normal, loving, all around unremarkable family. His life was originally just that as well: Unremarkable. The problem started around the age of fifteen when he started calling the wrong sort of people his friends. It started harmless enough: A delivered package there, a back alley deal there, but after a while Jacque found himself being roped into doing more and more risky things. By the time he'd hit eighteen he was a full blown smuggler, running anything from drugs to guns, to living people. He wasn't particularly fond of everything he did, but the money was good and he was in too deep to try and break it off without a solid reason. At twenty he began doing off world runs, hoping from planet to planet, system to system, gaining fortune and contacts alike as he ran whatever he was given.
For a little while he began looking into try to get his reputation up by dealing with a few Hutts, however all chances at that were shot out of the sky after a raid landed him in a prison cell with more than enough contraband to keep him there for the next decade at the very least. After calling in near every favor he was owed Jacque managed to shorten his sentence to about six and a half years, after which he spent the next six months gathering a few supplies he promptly fell in with a crew that seemed interested in the same line of work he was in. Being that he did get arrested for the exact thing they were hiring him to help with the rag tag group was naturally a bit hesistant, however as Jacque had both experience in the trade and a few contacts under his belt he was eventually accepted into the fold. The fact that he was also far and away one of the cheapest available options that wasn't a green horn or an undercover cop/bounty hunter certainly helped as well.

Propositions for shared backstory: Jacque's time spent as an off world smuggler was short but incredibly productive. The fact that he's willing to smuggle any thing for the right price means that there's a slim chance he may have done business with either crew members or people with which the crew members are familiar.