Raineh Daze

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@RickyG85 Ah, yeah, that was my mistake, really sorry about that; I got confused about who's who and the ordering. And I'm sorry it took so long to respond, I was… well, sleeping. Which I should have done before accepting… :(

@Expendable To refer to the mess just above from my own confusion, I'm trying to not have the cast be entirely ex-military. There's going to be plenty of non-military institutions that'd kick you out for picking fights – I've mentioned civilian freight a lot; those are massive conglomerates/merchant guilds.

Her eggs are in storage at a fertility clinic in New Iowa & ship's medlab.

That's… kind of a weirdly specific detail to have.

(And I'm willing to give the monopoly thing a pass, but I'm going to point out that this is thousands of years in the future, at minimum; do try and keep that in mind when it comes to specific things that exist now)

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@InfamousGuy101 That's accepted (I'd add the caveat that this is not Imperium of Man levels of callousness, at least universally, but yeah, empires are gonna empire) xD

@RickyG85 That's... not. The weird copycat idea is just... what?

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@InfamousGuy101 Feel free. As I said, it's a very big galaxy; there's not been anything that's flared up across the length of it, but local actions...

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Why not title this Laurentia's Run?

@Expendable

Dunno, that feels presumptuous. I'll probably overthink it way more. xD

What sort of tech is allowed, seeing how this is a merchant ship, not necessarily a merc ship with the space for mecha suits.

Do crew have their own cabins? Share a cabin, just have bunks, or hot bunking?

Aside from caster guns and their expensive shells, what sort of personal weapons may the crew carry?

Is the ship itself armed? Are major weapons hidden? Grappler guns?

What sort of cargo is the ship taking on?

What do people wear on Earth and in the colonies? Is it all conventional? Seeing how there's magic, do some opt to wear a lot of robes?

Okay, in order...
1. Honestly, I'm not going to be too restrictive. It's more a matter of "where did you get it" (although Rin'a already got the mech angle covered). It's not necessarily a merchant ship, either; it's more generalised than that.

2. Individual or shared. The crew size is limited by the number of berths.

3. Mmm, I wasn't thinking like Outlaw Star levels of cost there – more that they're like the #4; use is gonna be restricted by being draining to the caster (and not all wave motion guns). Personal weapons... well, the tech level available is widely variable. Coilguns more often than gunpowder, but energy weapons of various degrees of reliability, complexity, and damage, or just go for some form of melee weapon with the same logic.

4. Yes, it's armed, but not super heavily; it ain't a warship (or pirate vessel). No, it does not have arms xD

5. Depends what the job is. Generally gonna be more value-oriented (or speed) than bulk freight; not the room for that.

6. Honestly, whatever; the galaxy is huge and fashion is going to be dependent on where you are. Earth proper? Well, take a look at the world NOW, it's not gone any less varied.

But the navy does go in for the retro naval look (this is not a coincidence), I like that.

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Nope. Actually really fitting. @InfamousGuy101

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Knight RP

Royal Box

From Elisandre's polite clapping and the way Maletha was just staring at the broom, it was clear that this was more well-0received than it had been by the Moonlit Queen. Of course, the distraction could only hold so long before Elisandre politely asked, "And was that it? Your achievements pleased the Queen so much that she returned the Duke's wits?"

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Tyaethe muttered something that sounded like 'I can be scary too', but slipped into a seat beside Gretchen. Haizea seemed hesitant to sit again until the vampire levelled a sullen-looking glare at her, which was enough for the Hundi to cave and sit at an angle, nervously scratching at her chin.

"Oh, it's just a little illness, Aimada's just overprotective," Despite the confidence with how Haizea said that, paying attention to her tail and how just the tip was twitching gave away her true feelings on the matter. Not that it mattered with Tyaethe sat there, ready to provide the much more blunt explanation.

"It's her heart. Some of it's just from how she was born, some of it is curse damage," the vampire explained, not looking at either of them, "It doesn't beat right and sometimes misses them entirely."

"Yaya…" Now she was pouting.

The paladin was unmoved, though still not looking their way, "What? Gretchen and Gertrude might have an idea how to help, then you could join in. I can't, not in a way Reon would approve of…"

@Octo

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Oh, yeah, I have no objections to it, go ahead.

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Okay, there we go, captain up. She's a medic!

… and super suspicious, no way that's problematic. :)

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• Name: (Captain) Laurentia – she's remarkably reluctant to give over her full name. She certainly has it written on certain documentation… but except for the Imperial officials who needs to see it, she's very careful about anyone getting a look.
• Age: Superficially, she's in her twenties. At minimum, she's been plying her trade as a freelance ship's captain for the past 50. So how old is she really…? The references Laurentia comes out with suggest much older.
• Gender: Female
• Species: Human
• Appearance: For all the presence Laurentia sometimes has, her size isn't part of it: a neat 5'1, lean, and generally unthreatening, though with a figure that she's all too happy to use for flirting with… well, far too many people. And if the figure doesn't do it, maybe the style would: dressing every part the antiquated naval captain – a long coat, a crisp white shirt, a cravat of all things, and even a matching bicorne to round things off. Of course, her fortunes aren't the best, so maybe the coat's golden trim is a little worn, and the lacey cuffs of the shirt are a bit torn… but it's a memorable getup all the same. Though always having gloves on is a little odd, even for her.
  The captain is generally quite easy to pick out of a crowd: just look for the almost unnaturally red ponytail, or the equally green eyes. Unless you're on Earth, colours that bright tend to require some sort of genetic manipulation, or just good old-fashioned dye and lenses.
  If asked, though, she'll say the freckles are her best feature.
• Personality: An accurate description of the captain would be 'as far from an authority figure as you can imagine', cheerily taking suggestions from the rest of her crew on what they should be doing, and often needing to be the one dragged back to the ship because they have a job to do. Or, in many cases, prodded to actually take payment and not let people get services for free. Similarly, despite her dress-sense sometimes coming across as playing at being a pirate, she's almost a pacifist – if she doesn't have to fight someone, she's not going to, and it's going to be an even more extreme situation before she contemplates actually killing them.
  Even if she can be charismatic, mostly through enthusiasm and gregariousness, if there wasn't a crew, it would be a miracle if she survived for long, which may be why she keeps taking people on no matter how often they leave.
• Brief Backstory: It is, much like her age, mostly a mystery what Laurentia did before she started hanging around on the fringes as a general-purpose captain and problem solver. What's clear is that she is an Earth native and learned her magic through official channels – she has the paperwork and electronic trails to back it up, far too thorough to be a quick forgery, and more than enough to get the law off her back for having learnt what's tantamount to state secrets. But the full extent of that training, where she went after that…
  What Laurentia is happily more open about is what she's been doing since she got her ship: helping. Oh, it's for money of course – or so she says – but the general gist of the jobs she's happy to take of her own accord? They're the ones that don't pay well, where someone might not be able to scrape enough for the full fee, or maybe there's something shady that needs investigating. But she also just tends to spend her off time (when not in bars) on acting as a source of free medical treatment, especially on the frontier where things like that might be rare.
  But she does seem to have a bit too much familiarity with a lot of the less ethical things the crew ends up disrupting.
• Equipment: Well, primarily the ship, of course! It's been patched up and modified so often over the decades that it's impossible to tell exactly what it started as, but it's a rather typical shape for a small inter-system craft; long, thin, with thrusters prominently at one end and the bridge proper at the other looking out into space. It's cramped, with the crew quarters cut down to fit in more freight space, and even more so because of her rather strange insistence on having at least one plant in everything that qualifies as a room, and even the limited passageways between them. The artificial light is a good deal more like Earth's daylight than anything stock.
  But for her personal use, Laurentia has… a pistol. Not a caster pistol – although she undoubtedly has the natural ability to use them – or a modern energy weapon, but a very basic coilgun. Oh, it's been painted up nicely, but it's as fundamentally simple as a weapon gets: stick something into the other person's body, fast. It just uses electricity rather than a chemical propellant. And she really hates to use even that.
• Skills: The captain's a little bit of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to life aboard a ship – if there's nobody more specialised aboard, she can generally fix anything broken long enough to get to somewhere that can do proper repairs, or handle rerouting power to other systems. But her true specialty aboard a ship is as a navigator and helmsman; at some point in her life she was taught the full litany of navigation magic, which strongly suggests a past with the navy, or at least some affiliated institution. This lets her plot courses that would otherwise be reckless bordering insanity, leaving the safe leyline routes entirely for something nominally more direct, if broken up into many more stages.
  Aside from that trick, she's also astonishingly good at life-affiliated magic – not just healing, although that is its primary purpose… and surgery. If you're alive, then she can heal you; no questions asked on her end. Cybernetics? Can fit, fix, and maintain them; what sort of specialised surgeon do you take her for?
  Despite never displaying any skill with other magic, she's also a good source of information on what's possibly officially, and even unofficially.

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

Miina Malina

Miina regarded the radio with a blank gaze. What, exactly, was she meant to do with this? She had one working arm and it would be occupied… nonetheless, she shoved it into a pocket where it would be somewhat safe. Who knew, maybe one of the others would need a replacement.

The rest of the wait had her all but tapping her foot, just wanting it to be time already. And then it was upon them – the roars and howls of pained dragons, the great beasts tearing into one another. That would make their job much easier; perhaps it was better to not ground them at all? That might give the blighted and not-blighted dragons a common enemy. Or were blightbeasts too lost in their anger to recognise a more immediate threat?

Nothing to do but find out.

"Mmm, k-kill them all, then?" It was what she expected, but unkilling dragons was beyond her skills. Best to confirm first.