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Star Wars: Empire of Glass

Quick question, you mentioned in the opening post that the RP would have three episodes, following rebel infantry, imperial agents, and mercenary pilots. Did you mean that you wanted everyone to make a Rebel for the first part, an Imperial for the second part, and so on?

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Krista Reynolds

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Krista grumbled as her shot went wide, barely destroying a mech in a glancing blow. Off to her side she saw Neo Angel firing into the westernmost turtle, and the tentacles trying to repair it. "Some sort of self repair machanism," she said to her self. Still, she turned her attention back to the CWM squad she had shot at first, just in time to see the center turtle's shot inbound. Reflexively she flinched into the crater, waiting for the impact. By the time she popped back up, the cruxi had retreated to the edge of her range.

"Sloppy," she said to herself. The squad had moved to the edge of her range. She needed the time to line up shot. Confident in her relative safety, she made sure that her shot would hit one of the Cruxi at E4 center mass, hopefully taking the other out in the same blast. Then someone shouted over the comms just as she pulled the trigger.

"GO TO HELL SHELLHEAD!"

She didn't see if her shot connected, instead she was trying to identify who the newcomer was, if they were a threat, and then ask why they the hell they just shouted something so obnoxious over the air. Leaving herself peaking over the edge of her crater, she saw the newcomer slice up a turtle and zoom around at record speed. Checking her IFF systems, she tried to see who the hell the newcomer was. Frustratingly enough the newcomer was an unknown. Also worrying was the red critical status of Neo-Angel. "I hope she's alright."

Elise's message came through first, snapping Krista back to reality. "Understood, " she responded. Realizing how exposed she was, she stepped back into her crater to mull over her next step. She picked up that the recently destroyed turtle was the one that shot Neo-Angel from Maria's message. She thought back to the first turtle she helped Paladin destroy, and compared to the two other turtles she'd seen. She kept talking over the general channel . "I think that my plasma shots can stop the turtles from healing, but I need to get closer. Think you guys can help open up a path for me?"

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Krista Reynolds

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Krista grumbled as her shot went wide, barely destroying a mech in a glancing blow. Off to her side she saw Neo Angel firing into the westernmost turtle, and the tentacles trying to repair it. "Some sort of self repair machanism," she said to her self. Still, she turned her attention back to the CWM squad she had shot at first, just in time to see the center turtle's shot inbound. Reflexively she flinched into the crater, waiting for the impact. By the time she popped back up, the cruxi had retreated to the edge of her range.

"Sloppy," she said to herself. The squad had moved to the edge of her range. She needed the time to line up shot. Confident in her relative safety, she made sure that her shot would hit one of the Cruxi at E4 center mass, hopefully taking the other out in the same blast. Then someone shouted over the comms just as she pulled the trigger.

"GO TO HELL SHELLHEAD!"

She didn't see if her shot connected, instead she was trying to identify who the newcomer was, if they were a threat, and then ask why they the hell they just shouted something so obnoxious over the air. Leaving herself peaking over the edge of her crater, she saw the newcomer slice up a turtle and zoom around at record speed. Checking her IFF systems, she tried to see who the hell the newcomer was. Frustratingly enough the newcomer was an unknown. Also worrying was the red critical status of Neo-Angel. "I hope she's alright."

Elise's message came through first, snapping Krista back to reality. "Understood, " she responded. Realizing how exposed she was, she stepped back into her crater to mull over her next step. She picked up that the recently destroyed turtle was the one that shot Neo-Angel from Maria's message. She thought back to the first turtle she helped Paladin destroy, and compared to the two other turtles she'd seen. She kept talking over the general channel . "I think that my plasma shots can stop the turtles from healing, but I need to get closer. Think you guys can help open up a path for me?"

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Krista Reynolds

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Krista grumbled as her shot went wide, barely destroying a mech in a glancing blow. Tracking the squad as they retreated, she was ready to fire again when she saw the turtle's shot inbound. Reflexively she flinched into the crater, waiting for the impact. By the time she popped back up, the cruxi had retreated to the edge of her range.

"Sloppy," she said to nobody in particular. The squad had moved to the edge of her range. She needed the time to line up shot. Confident in her relative safety, she made sure that her shot would hit one of the Cruxi at E4 center mass, hopefully taking the other out in the same blast. Then someone shouted over the comms just as she pulled the trigger.

"GO TO HELL SHELLHEAD!"

She didn't see if her shot connected, instead she was trying to identify who the newcomer was, if they were a threat, and then ask why they the hell they just shouted something so obnoxious over the air. Leaving herself peaking over the edge of her crater, she saw the newcomer slice up a turtle and zoom around at record speed. Fascinated by the fact a new Framewerk had somehow snuck up on them, she stood there dumbfounded.

Elise's message came through first, snapping Krista back to reality. "Understood, " she responded. Then Elise's order came through, almost pointedly at her. Realizing how exposed she was, she stepped back into her crater to mull over her next step.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Krista Reynolds

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The flurry of activity quickly devestated the left flank of the Cruxi formation, most of the squad making quick work of the enemy. She couldnt help but feel some satisfaction at helping the Paladin double tap one of them. Still, the battle was moving quickly. She registered Katya's order to move up just as her rangefinder told her that there were no targets in optimal range. "Target down," she said, already moving towards the crater. "Taking cover in that crater" she said over the coms.

Scuttling along like a bug, she was glad that most of the Cruxi on this side of the battlefield had been taken care of in the opening salvos, letting her move in relative safety. She pushed the thought of being hit by the weapoin that made this hole aside. The crater provided a great place for her to take cover, a prospect that seemed almost silly with how big their machines were. With just her turret sticking over the edge, it reduced her already low profile even more, letting have a pick of targets. With a quick snap to the right, she took aim and fired off a shot towards the group at E5.

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Combat Actions:
Moving to D8, taking cover, and firing on E5

Nomadic Fist: Radiant Soul (A Fighting Game RPG!)

Margot "Renard Bleu" Coudray

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⦋ 24 || French || Female ⦌

APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY

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APPEARANCE

Margot carries herself with a distinctly aristocratic air. While her beauty speaks for itself, her height is something of note, as she stands at nearly six feet. Thankfully, she has the money to make sure that whatever she’s wearing fits her. This includes her now trademark blue fencing outfit which evokes the swashbucklers of old, complete with a wide brimmed hat, a fox-shaped mask, and a cape. While these all serve practical purposes (Keeps the sun out of her eyes, vision enhancement, and weather protection), the only other practical concessions to her dangerous lifestyle is a recently added lining of kevlar and practical shoes.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

- Analytical
- Dramatic
- Driven to the point of stubbornness
- Generous
- Self-Sacrificing
- Quick to Snark

BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION

Margot’s family can trace their national service back to the days of the Musketeers, where they served alongside the actual Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and D’Artangan. Since then, at least one member from every generation served under the crown of France. When the Revolution came, they were among those decimated by the Reign of Terror. Still, when France needed them, the Coudray family answered. The family had members march on Moscow under Napoleon, fight in the trenches of Verdun, and help push the Nazi’s from Paris.

This tradition of civil service has imprinted itself on Margot. While not as militarily inclined as her forefathers, she is still a powerful fighter in her own right. She’s taken up the business of vigilantism under the title “Renard Bleu”, keeping alive the ideals of the Musketeers by defending the weak. However, Renard proved to be a controversial figure as many saw her as a symptom of a society plagued by fear that did more harm than good with her theatrical antics.

Eager to prove her prowess to the wider world, she has competed in fencing competitions all over the world. This brought her fame and fortune, but it was a matter of time before people started comparing her to the (in)famous “Blue Fox of Paris”. They were both women around the same height. Both spoke perfect English with a French accent. It did not help that Renard had a tendency to appear in cities where Margot competed.

The final nail in the coffin came when she was shot while stopping a store robbery while competing in New York. While she managed to foil the robbers and get away, the wound was serious enough that she should have gone to a hospital. Instead, she hid the injury, hastily stitching it up before going on to compete that night. During the fight the inevitable happened. The wound reopened during her first match of the tournament in front of an audience. She was forced to explain how she’d been shot, and by extension her vigilante identity.

The uproar was immediate, if mixed. Almost immediately, she was barred from most ‘respectable’ fencing leagues. Those that supported her for her vigilantism almost matched those who condemned her extra-legal activities. She and her family came under intense scrutiny. Realizing that her family would not know peace while she stayed with them, she struck out on her own. Now she travels the world living off her (sizable) winnings, forced to embrace her new identity as a modern superhero..

FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES

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FIGHTING STYLE

Typically Margot wields two blades, a rapier in her main hand and a parrying dagger in her off hand. In normal fights, she keeps the sheathes of her blades on, only exposing then when a fight gets serious. Until that point, they act like a pair of clubs, albeit pretty ones. This also gives her extra reach compared to most other fighters.

A world class fencer, Margot wins fights by controlling when and how she moves into striking range. Always mobile, she often attacks and moves in one motion. When possible, she tries to follow up an attack with a combo to press an advantage. She uses her fighting spirit to reinforce these techniques, using it to augment the speed and range of her lunges as well as enhance her mobility. As her technique represents hundreds of years of refinement, she is also trained in ki sensing, though she also augments this with her mask's vision enhancements.

SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES

■ Coupe-rose (Rose Cutter)

One of her only ground fighting moves, Margot dashes forward and slides, sweeping the opponent's legs out from under them with a kick. She then follows up a series of slashes with her dagger and sword as she swiftly rises to her feet again.

■ Fouetter (Whip)

Margot makes a mighty leap, slashing her target as she ends up behind them with her sword before whipping around to stab them in the back with her dagger.

■ Le Saut du Chat (The Cat's Leap)

Expending her fighting spirit, Margot can rapidly move a few steps in the blink of an eye. She often uses this to disengage or engage opponents.

■ Riposte

A rather simple technique, Margot uses her dagger to parry an incoming attack before driving her sword home, allowing her to punish those that come to her. This is usually followed up with a kick to push the opponent back.

■ Six pétales de lys (Six Petals of the Lily)

Margot initiates a rapid series of slashes against her opponent, striking from the front repeatedly to disorient them and force them back.

SUPER MOVES

■ Attaque Vengerrese (Gale Strike)

Focusing her fighting spirit, she can make her sword strikes so quick that the very air itself becomes an extention of her attacks. This effectively increaces the reach of her sword by several feet, striking her opponents far beyond her normal range.

■ Tempête d'épées (Storm of Swords)

Margot lets her fighting spirit flow through her, blades becoming a light as a feather as she moves at the speed of wind. Using her agility, she dashes around the battlefield. She can effectively teleport like this, and becomes very hard to hit.

■ Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (One for All, All for One)

With a burst of energy, Margot becomes fast enough to leave afterimages. Utilizing this speed, she can chain together a series of blows that come so fast and from so many angles that it seems that she has suddenly gained an untold number of allies which have all decided to strike at once.

WEAKNESSES & LIMITS

Margot's fighting style has a tendency to over-extend. If she misses with her initial strike, she has difficulty following up and is left open for retaliation. Additionally any character that can keep her close will have a definite advantage over her, especially once they get within the range of her sword.

OTHER

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- She swears up and down that she was not thinking of Zorro when she came up with her vigilante identity. No inspiration whatsoever.
- She's a big fan of fantasy and sci-fi, and often reads bad genre fiction to unwind.
- She is polyglot, fluent in both French and English while also knowing Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese to some extent.
- She actually has a degree, BS in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique.

Otsana Kurt Corral

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⦋ 28 || Canadian || Female ⦌

APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY

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APPEARANCE

Otsana is an inumimi, meaning that she has a wolf's tail and ears. Her body is covered in scars and tattoos, the most notable of which being a large cross shaped scar on her face. Clothing wise, she wears what could loosely be called 'military' style clothing. Olive green tank tops, shorts, and a crap ton of holsters. She claims that her skimpy clothing is because she is used to much colder weather, which she is, but more than one observer has noted that her clothing leaves others a bit hot and bothered.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

- Loud
- Brash
- Bold
- Bombastic
- A bit of a redneck
- Hedonistic
- Tomboyish

BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION

Born in a rural town in the north of the Quebec Province, Otsana is the middle child of a very large family. Even at a young age, her seemingly boundless pool of ki manifested itself as she out-ran, out-lasted, and out-scrapped her siblings and other children. She easily fit into the the 'wild-child' stereotype that follows her kind; running through the woods barefoot, scaring livestock, and generally raising hell. By the time she reached sixteen years old, her parents had sent her to Saint Christopher's Boarding School in Québec City.

While this was intended to be a punishment, she quite enjoyed herself. She often slipped away from her chaperones to explore the city, often sneaking out to get into the same shenanigans she did back home. However she did manage to do well in her studies and had a knack for avoiding serious consequences. It was here she first developed an attunement to her ki, instinctively developing her ki-sense as she dodged her chaperones. However what did get her enthusiasm the most was the summer trips to her cousins in the States, where she first got to fire guns.

Ultimately, when she did graduate a recruiter managed to convince her to join the army. They made it sound like she'd get paid to do what she liked, which was cause trouble while playing with guns. While this was true, they didn't mention that she'd be expected to work within a command structure. Even being the designated machine-gunner of her squad wasn’t enough to make her stop chafing with her superiors. However it was in the Army where she finally discovered how to use Ki, when during an ambush she instinctively managed to use her ki to keep firing her gun long after the magazine had run out.

Needless to say, the military was quite keen to use her once this manifested. She was convinced to join a special forces unit composed primarily of Ki users. Here she was taught the finer points of blowing things up, smashing faces, and general asskicking while also refining her ki usage.

All things must come to an end, and so did Otsana's term of service. After several years worth of missions, there came a point where it became clear that she just didn't have the temperament to stay much longer.

Barely receiving an honorable discharge, she found herself in high demand as a mercenary. She could be picky with her contracts, and often chose them based on how fun they sounded, like sabotage. These contracts were often broken up with her own activities, which often included robberies. It was these criminal activities that gained her notoriety, though she was careful to cultivate a Robin Hood style image, especially if it helped her escape. Sometimes this means tossing wads of cash behind her to attract a mob to slow down the cops, sometimes it means running away rather than finishing off a popular vigilante, and other times it means evacuating a corrupt official’s office building before blowing it up.

Either way, Otsana has become a globe trotter, eating when it's fun; drinking when it's fun; and fighting when it's fun.

FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES

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FIGHTING STYLE

Otsana carries several guns and explosives. Otsana uses her guns both as melee weapons and as ranged weapons. She switches between dual wielding one handed weapons and using her machine gun. She's been trained in using her firearms as meele weapons, and they have been hardened accordingly.

Her ki enhances her senses, strength, and durability, letting her use her guns with extreme precision. Additionally she's developed an unusual technique of channeling her Ki through her weapons, putting the 'fire' in 'firearms'. All her shots look like tracer rounds, but are actually miniature fireballs. her ki sensing training came from the army, where it was mainly emphasized to give her a situational awareness of where people are in relation to her, as well as their relative power levels.

SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES

■ One Handed: Both Barrels

Otsana draws her sawn-off shotgun and, like the name suggests, fires both barrels at once. This has been known to knock people flat on their backs. Short Range with Decent knockback

■ One Handed: Double Tap

Otsana draws an automatic pistol and fires several times in a row. Medium Ranged with rapid chip damage

■ One Handed: Doorknocker

Otsana draws a comically large revolver and fires a powerful long ranged shot.

■ Two Handed: Bloop

Otsana fires a grenade from her launcher, blowing her opponent away.

■ Two Handed: Boloa-Launcher

Using her MG's Underslung launcher, Otsana entangles her opponent, holding them still for further attacks.

■ Two Handed: Dragon's Breath

Otsana channels her ki through her launcher in the form of a large cone of fire. It doesn't do much damage in itself, but it is likely to set things on fire.

■ Two Handed: Flash-Bang

Otsana tosses a small flashbang that disorients anyone caught in the flash.

SUPER MOVES

■ The Buzzsaw

With a wild cackle, Otsana unleashes an entire drum magazine for her MG on an opponent in one long burst.

■ Here's a Present!

Otsana plants a large satchel charge on her opponent before retreating to a safe range to detonate it.

■ Everything at Once

Leading with a flashbang, Otsana draws and fires each of her one handed weapons in quick succession.

WEAKNESSES & LIMITS

Because her different attacks require her to switch weapons so often, anyone that can catch her off guard will be at an advantage. Furthermore, several of her two handed attacks use finite resources that she cannot replace during a fight. She doesnt have any notable movement options; even though she does have a grappling hook, it is too unweildy to use during a fight.

Additionally she is prone to excess when indulging, giving an opening for foul play. Finally, as theatrical as she is, she often has difficulty in actually finishing people off.

OTHER

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- She wears hearing protection in her ears, which also double as wireless headphones. They are pretty unobtrusive, and keep her from blowing out her eardrums from all the explosions she causes.

SANGUINE EMPIRE (Dark Fantasy, Samurai/Wuxia setting)

@HellisFair enough, I guess that was kind of the idea. Have the mentor be mortally wounded on the battlefield. I do like the idea ofa weak but skilled character though. Ill think on it

SANGUINE EMPIRE (Dark Fantasy, Samurai/Wuxia setting)

So just a quick clarification, for the living weapons, smiths who can make it are found outside of Nanjin, albiet more rare, right? Additionally do the weapons have to incorporate part of the sacrificed person or anything? Like they dont need to have a human's body part in them. Finally, would it work as well if the person is already on their deathbed when they make the sacrifice? I was thinking of someone who's elderly mentor was struck down and their apprentice has to take up the reigns.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Krista Reynolds

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A scar. Hou Yi had a scar. The technicians had repaired Krista's Framewerk in time for this new battle, but the lack of time to paint the newly replaced armor plates made them stand out. Krista herself had spent the time studying what she could of the last fight, quietly trying to figure out what she could've done differently. The answer frustrated her: Don't get shot, idiot.

She pushed the thought to the back of her head during the briefing, quietly absorbing the information on the situation as it was presented. At first she thought the Deep Strike would be doable, she had practiced the maneuver in the simulator dozens of time. However the heat generated during the real deal was suffocating, and she had to strain to focus on the proper landing in her specially designed drop pod. Her werk had to be specially folded up and placed into the pod after she had climbed into the cockpit to ensure that she would land upright. Immediately upon landing she felt the extra gravity, her body heavy in the seat, the climate control working quickly to bring the cockpit back to a more comfortable temperature. And that wasn't even accounting for how much heavier Hou Yi felt. For a moment she worried that she shell wouldn't open but with a series of concussive blasts, the panels fell away to let her stand up.

Immediately she saw several targets within range, all set against the backdrop of a ruined world. Just like her home. She took a deep breath to try and steady her voice and opened the comms channel. "This is the Hou Yi, I landed safely.". Stepping clear of the drop pod, she saw the fight had already started, with Paladin firing upon a pair of Cruxi targets. She decided to assist Paladin, adding her own fire into the mix to help ensure target destruction.

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Combat Actions:
Firing upon target in C7

Star Wars: The Beat (closed)

Oh neat I can dig this. I need to do some quick research since I'm not too familiar with the non-movie stuff outside of the Battlefront 2 game. I was thinking of making a rifleman. We don't need to strictly adhere to the roles you suggested though, do we? You do get final say in everything though.