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Made a post updating everyone with what's happening in their respective areas. New bad guys have appeared... and they mean business...
I look forward to the replies. I'm eager to get this battle into it's main and end phase, as the REAL plot will start once we get the intel and hostages back...
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The desire to join an RP instead of run one, but the lack of anything being advertised or open that fits my interests
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Why are people posting 1x1 'looking for' threads in the main section, when there's a whole section for 1x1 RP's?
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It'd be nice to be able to *play* an RP I'm interested in for once, rather than having to *run* one all the time. Of course, doesn't help that I'm picky about what I enjoy.
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Hmmmmm... PM inviting me to an RP on Discord by a user who just joined the site and has no posts? Doesn't sound iffy at all, no sir.
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Bio
I've been roleplaying in one form or another since the late '90's. I've played as many tabletop games as I have online ones, and the quality of both has varied wildly.
I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists.
I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* school RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 43 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time.
I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists.
I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* school RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 43 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time.
I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
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Forum: Casual Roleplay
Silverwind met up with Mike with no issues, even after the Prowler had opened fire and made a mess of the sun-faded decor of the machine-shop. Nothing had emerged during Silverwinds' earth-shaking run up the main road either, even after he'd deliberately clipped a building with one elbow of the GEAR as it moved. In short; the town was abandoned and lifeless. This left the fox with the problem of reinforcing the others, who even now were filling the commo net with battle-chatter from their respective positions.
The mine had turned out to be a warren of hostiles, and Aiden and Adrian were apparently engaged in ferocious combat. Myrina and Arcade were holding their position against a force of unknown size in the bowl-shaped valley, and there were definite hostiles in the Landcrawlers, engaged by Esailia's team. Even Ken had opened fire, after being fired upon.
Drawing up decisions, he designated icons on the holographic C3I display floating above his controls and spoke rapidly to the other two GEAR pilots with him.
"Nawlin, Kuraiko - move to reinforce Sykes and Kelsea at the mine. Your GEARs are both better suited for close-in combat than mine, and should be a good pairing with both of theirs as well. Not to mention you can both cover the longer distance more quickly than the Harlock. I'm moving to reinforce Michelete and Ruthless, my GEAR is better at those kinds of ranges, and the area is closer, so I can cover the distance more effectively. Move!"
Blade spun his GEAR around on it's foot-wheels and zipped in the direction of the valley. Smoke was rolling from the low, dusty hills surrounding the area, and the machines' external microphones picked up the thump and chatter of weapons-fire from here. Swerving around to follow the road into the valley, he toggled another frequency as he heard more incoming messages.
The foxes' ears flattened under his helmet at the tone in Aidens' voice. The Corpsman was obviously coping well, but not being able to immediately assist his man was anaethema to the vulpine.
"Hold fast, Sykes. Prowler and Blitzkrieg are on the way to back you both up. They might not be airborne, but the firepower oughta help. Break. Maxwell, keep on those hostiles and take' em down, then stand by for further orders. Break. Sprinsteam, Sitrep? Over".
The words were terse and fast, but that was combat; it didn't leave time for flowerly language and debate. You had to act quickly, or else everything fell apart in a shocking short time.
Skidding into the mouth of the valley, the Harlock's LIDAR and other sensors painted a picture on the display, icons and tags appended to each trace. Michelete's GEAR was in good cover, and trading fire with a trio of hostile GEARs and a quartet of light armed vehicles that were driving evasive patterns around the valley floor, weaving between the irrigation equipment. Ruthless had taken cover already, and was doggedly doing his bit to engage as well.
The three GEARs were markedly Bandit machines - they carried faded and patched-up civilian paint jobs, and had exposed internal systems, where they'd been 'jacked', shadily modified and tinkered with for near-military performance in their onboard LOS and Electromuscular systems, and had military-grade sensors scabbed onto the outside. The standard-sized hardpoints were equipped with a oddball assortment of both weapons, and civilian equipment that could do nasty damage in the right situation. In short, they were a threat, especially in an ambush like this, but they'd go down easy. One was already slumped and smoking.
Blade bounded into cover nearby to Myrina and shot her a laser link.
"Howdy. Thought I'd come to join your party. Mine was lookin' kinda dead," he quipped. "Looks like your guests got a little rowdy though. Maybe I oughta help y'all put 'em down. I reckon maybe we split and try and flank 'em - I'll volley a coupla high-ex rounds to keep 'em lookin' and confused, an' then you get some hits on 'em while I relocate and shoot again. Good ol' one-two hit?"
Meanwhile, at Ken's position, the missile fired at the helicopter had soared off on its' self-destructive journey into the wild blue yonder. The return fire from the helo's chaingun had shredded the ATV into a expansive field of machine parts and gore across the scrubby floor, and had resulted in a startled panic from the other bandits. Out of the five vehicles, the remaining four split fifty-fifty. Two stopped, and the other two drove more crazily evasive manoeuvres, and opened fire with their personal weapons, a storm of small-arms fired aimed up at the menacing-looking rotorcraft that had utterly shredded their comrade - and, probably, their only effective weapon.
At the mine, the smoke began to settle, and the looming forms of GEARs were made out plainly. There were six in all, and all looked mean and menacing. They did appear to be, once again, civilian models. But these were much higher-end machines than those in the valley. Less 'scrappy' and botched-together, these were some of the latest models out of one of the many GEAR-works of the Independent States, and looked professionally modified.
Gleaming black-and-tan and with red-eyed mono-sensors glowing, they bristled with sophisticated missile-racks on one shoulder, a rapid-fire chaingun-pod on the other and with an autocannon rifle and underslung flamethrower or shotgun on each one of their rifles. The exceptions were one carrying a sniper-type rifle, and another carrying a heavy gatling cannon. A third carried a shorter, stubby sub-machinegun type hand-held gun. Most also had a wicked-looking GEAR-scale machete sheathed at the rear of their waists, though the SMG-wielder carried two shorter knives, and an array of thrown AP/shaped charge daggers instead, and bristled with movement-enhancing equipment.
The sextuple paused in a brief moment, before splitting to all points to take cover. The faster-moving one with knives and daggers closed range at a frightning speed, while the others moved out in practised ease, covering the moving machines, before opening fire.
At the Landcrawler, the room fell silent after the torrent of firepower unleashed into it, aside from a few feeble moans of pain and gurgles of someone choking on their own blood. No-one else opted to exchange fire with the assault team, leaving the heavy smell of cordite, blood and death in the air, along with ear-ringing silence.
Then there was a slight sound - the tapping on someone knocking on metal from a few doors down the narrow hall of the vehicle.
The mine had turned out to be a warren of hostiles, and Aiden and Adrian were apparently engaged in ferocious combat. Myrina and Arcade were holding their position against a force of unknown size in the bowl-shaped valley, and there were definite hostiles in the Landcrawlers, engaged by Esailia's team. Even Ken had opened fire, after being fired upon.
Drawing up decisions, he designated icons on the holographic C3I display floating above his controls and spoke rapidly to the other two GEAR pilots with him.
"Nawlin, Kuraiko - move to reinforce Sykes and Kelsea at the mine. Your GEARs are both better suited for close-in combat than mine, and should be a good pairing with both of theirs as well. Not to mention you can both cover the longer distance more quickly than the Harlock. I'm moving to reinforce Michelete and Ruthless, my GEAR is better at those kinds of ranges, and the area is closer, so I can cover the distance more effectively. Move!"
Blade spun his GEAR around on it's foot-wheels and zipped in the direction of the valley. Smoke was rolling from the low, dusty hills surrounding the area, and the machines' external microphones picked up the thump and chatter of weapons-fire from here. Swerving around to follow the road into the valley, he toggled another frequency as he heard more incoming messages.
This is team three, tangos blew the warehouse into confetti and opened fire on us. We're covered by a dust storm, we may need air support or a pair of eyes from above, sir!"
The foxes' ears flattened under his helmet at the tone in Aidens' voice. The Corpsman was obviously coping well, but not being able to immediately assist his man was anaethema to the vulpine.
"Hold fast, Sykes. Prowler and Blitzkrieg are on the way to back you both up. They might not be airborne, but the firepower oughta help. Break. Maxwell, keep on those hostiles and take' em down, then stand by for further orders. Break. Sprinsteam, Sitrep? Over".
The words were terse and fast, but that was combat; it didn't leave time for flowerly language and debate. You had to act quickly, or else everything fell apart in a shocking short time.
Skidding into the mouth of the valley, the Harlock's LIDAR and other sensors painted a picture on the display, icons and tags appended to each trace. Michelete's GEAR was in good cover, and trading fire with a trio of hostile GEARs and a quartet of light armed vehicles that were driving evasive patterns around the valley floor, weaving between the irrigation equipment. Ruthless had taken cover already, and was doggedly doing his bit to engage as well.
The three GEARs were markedly Bandit machines - they carried faded and patched-up civilian paint jobs, and had exposed internal systems, where they'd been 'jacked', shadily modified and tinkered with for near-military performance in their onboard LOS and Electromuscular systems, and had military-grade sensors scabbed onto the outside. The standard-sized hardpoints were equipped with a oddball assortment of both weapons, and civilian equipment that could do nasty damage in the right situation. In short, they were a threat, especially in an ambush like this, but they'd go down easy. One was already slumped and smoking.
Blade bounded into cover nearby to Myrina and shot her a laser link.
"Howdy. Thought I'd come to join your party. Mine was lookin' kinda dead," he quipped. "Looks like your guests got a little rowdy though. Maybe I oughta help y'all put 'em down. I reckon maybe we split and try and flank 'em - I'll volley a coupla high-ex rounds to keep 'em lookin' and confused, an' then you get some hits on 'em while I relocate and shoot again. Good ol' one-two hit?"
Meanwhile, at Ken's position, the missile fired at the helicopter had soared off on its' self-destructive journey into the wild blue yonder. The return fire from the helo's chaingun had shredded the ATV into a expansive field of machine parts and gore across the scrubby floor, and had resulted in a startled panic from the other bandits. Out of the five vehicles, the remaining four split fifty-fifty. Two stopped, and the other two drove more crazily evasive manoeuvres, and opened fire with their personal weapons, a storm of small-arms fired aimed up at the menacing-looking rotorcraft that had utterly shredded their comrade - and, probably, their only effective weapon.
At the mine, the smoke began to settle, and the looming forms of GEARs were made out plainly. There were six in all, and all looked mean and menacing. They did appear to be, once again, civilian models. But these were much higher-end machines than those in the valley. Less 'scrappy' and botched-together, these were some of the latest models out of one of the many GEAR-works of the Independent States, and looked professionally modified.
Gleaming black-and-tan and with red-eyed mono-sensors glowing, they bristled with sophisticated missile-racks on one shoulder, a rapid-fire chaingun-pod on the other and with an autocannon rifle and underslung flamethrower or shotgun on each one of their rifles. The exceptions were one carrying a sniper-type rifle, and another carrying a heavy gatling cannon. A third carried a shorter, stubby sub-machinegun type hand-held gun. Most also had a wicked-looking GEAR-scale machete sheathed at the rear of their waists, though the SMG-wielder carried two shorter knives, and an array of thrown AP/shaped charge daggers instead, and bristled with movement-enhancing equipment.
The sextuple paused in a brief moment, before splitting to all points to take cover. The faster-moving one with knives and daggers closed range at a frightning speed, while the others moved out in practised ease, covering the moving machines, before opening fire.
At the Landcrawler, the room fell silent after the torrent of firepower unleashed into it, aside from a few feeble moans of pain and gurgles of someone choking on their own blood. No-one else opted to exchange fire with the assault team, leaving the heavy smell of cordite, blood and death in the air, along with ear-ringing silence.
Then there was a slight sound - the tapping on someone knocking on metal from a few doors down the narrow hall of the vehicle.
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12 yrs ago
Forum: Casual Roleplay
Shadowman, I'm a little confused by your post - Our team weren't engaged by any hostiles at all so far, and where we are is suspiciously quiet, rather than anyone showing up at all. I'm not really a fan of players introducing elements into a scene without asking either - it can really throw things off, and I believe I even mention it in the game rules too.
I actually had a really bad experience with that in an RP I ran, and it nearly derailed the plot, so I'm very set against it as a result.
In the meantime, post is incoming from me
I actually had a really bad experience with that in an RP I ran, and it nearly derailed the plot, so I'm very set against it as a result.
In the meantime, post is incoming from me
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No worries, man! Like I said, I'm trying to keep things being a bit more casual than pressing everyone to post all the time.
And thanks - my wrist is slowly getting better, but it'll take a while! Thankfully I'm left-handed, so it's not a huge issue, but having to try and learn to use the mouse with my left hand instead of right is... challenging. Especially with things like certain programs and commands in them too.
And thanks - my wrist is slowly getting better, but it'll take a while! Thankfully I'm left-handed, so it's not a huge issue, but having to try and learn to use the mouse with my left hand instead of right is... challenging. Especially with things like certain programs and commands in them too.
Sorry to do this, but I think I'm going to drop out. Recently, it feels like online RP is eating up more of my free time than I'd like to do anything else with, and as I've said, I'm beginning to resent it a bit for that.
I realize this leaves you in a bad position, and I'm sorry about that, but I've spent the last week logging on and looking at the screen with barely any motivation to post - which is a shame too, as Gundam is one of my favourite mecha universes, and I love it very much.
But really, this is a hobby, and I should be having fun with it - and if I'm not, then there's no reason to keep doing it.
Also, I'll point out that it's not this game in particular, it's just online RP in general. I intend to keep doing my GEARs RP, but I'll be running that at a very reduced pace. I've dropped out of everything too, so it's not just this RP.
Apologies for the inconvenience of it, and thanks for you time so far.
I realize this leaves you in a bad position, and I'm sorry about that, but I've spent the last week logging on and looking at the screen with barely any motivation to post - which is a shame too, as Gundam is one of my favourite mecha universes, and I love it very much.
But really, this is a hobby, and I should be having fun with it - and if I'm not, then there's no reason to keep doing it.
Also, I'll point out that it's not this game in particular, it's just online RP in general. I intend to keep doing my GEARs RP, but I'll be running that at a very reduced pace. I've dropped out of everything too, so it's not just this RP.
Apologies for the inconvenience of it, and thanks for you time so far.
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I know that feeling all too well at the moment - I'm still having trouble with my wrist too, so having to try and cut down a lot on posting, as I work on a computer all day too.
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Hello, everyone. Sorry for the delay in posting. Between my hand being hurt and otherwise kind of feeling rushed around, I haven't managed to get a post up. And the times I have logged into the site, I've kind of sat there just looking at the screen and finding it more of a chore to write something than a joy.
I will try and get something up in the next few days, but as I said previously: the frequency might go down for a while until I can find this more fun than a job I don't get paid for, and don't get much reward from. I may be concentrating on doing other things for a while too. But, I will be keeping GEARs alive, and it's probably going to be my only RP for a while as well, since it's the most developed and I lubs it so. Also, I really like all of you guys who play - you're all friendly, fun people to chat to in the OOC as well as in the game, and I'd legit miss all of you if I wasn't here.
So, yeah - New post will be coming soon-ish, and things might be a bit more relaxed for a while. But we will be going on!
I will try and get something up in the next few days, but as I said previously: the frequency might go down for a while until I can find this more fun than a job I don't get paid for, and don't get much reward from. I may be concentrating on doing other things for a while too. But, I will be keeping GEARs alive, and it's probably going to be my only RP for a while as well, since it's the most developed and I lubs it so. Also, I really like all of you guys who play - you're all friendly, fun people to chat to in the OOC as well as in the game, and I'd legit miss all of you if I wasn't here.
So, yeah - New post will be coming soon-ish, and things might be a bit more relaxed for a while. But we will be going on!
After some thought about it, I'm going to step the RP down for now - sorry if that's disappointing to everyone, but I'm finding it really hard to find time to do anything else at the moment and manage my schedule. And the last few days I've logged onto the site, looked at the screen, and then not had any real desire to make any posts, as it's just seemed like work rather than fun or enjoyment opposed to other things I could be doing instead.
So, sorry if it's going to be disappointing for everyone, but I think the mass of people we've had drop out over time coupled with the crawling pace of posts hasn't helped - although, I don't blame anyone for either of those things, and I'm very pleased and proud of you guys who have stuck with it.
But, right now, I just feel like I want to take a rest from RP for a bit, and concentrate on some other things.
So, sorry if it's going to be disappointing for everyone, but I think the mass of people we've had drop out over time coupled with the crawling pace of posts hasn't helped - although, I don't blame anyone for either of those things, and I'm very pleased and proud of you guys who have stuck with it.
But, right now, I just feel like I want to take a rest from RP for a bit, and concentrate on some other things.
I'll get one up this evening after work. Kind of seeming a bit more like a chore than fun lately.
Fair enough man, thanks for letting us know. Mind how you go, and hope you carry on having fun.
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