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Hello everyone, just an FYI; I'm currently putting together the details for the actual thread. Just crunching the details to try and make things specific-but-not-too-much. It's taken me a bit longer than I hoped for one reason or another, but it should be up in the next day or so. Just wanted to touch base with people and let you know it's still going ahead, and that I haven't lost interest or buggered off and left you all in the lurch.
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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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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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Can always skip some time, tbh I wasn't really planning anything eventful for the flight anyway, so a few hours skipped ahead is fine
Got a post up, sorry it took so long, haha xD
It was a shortish one with a bit of silliness and messing about, but I wanted to get something in for Python to do and say.
It was a shortish one with a bit of silliness and messing about, but I wanted to get something in for Python to do and say.
Silver casually tossed Max a wave of acknowledgement as the lion excused himself. In truth, he could use the same. The flight would be long and boring, with nothing of note for the unit to do, and no way to entertain themselves other than what they had on them. The silver fox had packed a paperback in his backpack and of course, had his pebble and all that gave access to. But for the moment all he felt like doing was resting. He set himself into one of the folding jump-seats lining both sides of the huge jets' bay. The rest of Python had sat along them too, mingling with Viper and their personal kit piled up in seats between or in front of them.
While Max's mind was active and full of introspection, Silverwind's was calm and steady. It wasn't that he didn't have concerns about the mission, or about how it might go wrong, but they were present for any mission, and his experience had taught him that worrying wouldn't solve what could or might happen, nor change it. Python and Viper had been trained and drilled as hard as they could be and to all reasonable expectations. All of them were there because they were good enough to be, and him or Max riding them harder wouldn't make anything less or more likely to happen.
Instead, the Fox let the thoughts drift out of his mind and leaned back in the canvas of the jump seat and closed his eye, letting the vibrations of the aircraft lull him to a restful state.
Alongside him, Alisha peered at the fox, and then looked further down at Max, also seeming to drift off to sleep, and shook her head, the pink-dyed quills rattling slightly as she did so.
"Unbelievable," she said with a wry smile. "Guess all the experience they have counts for something if they can both drift off to sleep with all this," she gestured around the bay at the noise surrounding them.
"Speak for yourself," Catriona replied with a wide yawn, stretching out both arms and fidgeting to try and get comfortable in her seat. Large as she was, it wasnt a great fit, but the bovine would make do. From under the shaggy fringe of red fur that covered her eyes, she looked across at the much shorter woman. "I can sleep anywhere, and if there's one thing I've learned from the chief over the weeks we've been here, it's that if he or Bastion do something, it's best to follow the example". She leaned back in the seat and settled down more comfortably, leaving the others to exchange glances, before Case leaned out and grinned at Alisha.
"Oi, Riser, I'll trade you all the desserts in my field rations if you can get a look under the boss's eyepatch".
Alisha raised an eyebrow and the quills on the back of her head bristled, before she looked over at Silverwind.
Without moving or opening an eye, the fox spoke.
"Don't even think about it, either of ya. I've got my eye on you".
"But, you've got your eyes closed?" Case said in disbelief
"Yeah," the fox replied, before yawning again. "But I still got my eye on ya".
While Max's mind was active and full of introspection, Silverwind's was calm and steady. It wasn't that he didn't have concerns about the mission, or about how it might go wrong, but they were present for any mission, and his experience had taught him that worrying wouldn't solve what could or might happen, nor change it. Python and Viper had been trained and drilled as hard as they could be and to all reasonable expectations. All of them were there because they were good enough to be, and him or Max riding them harder wouldn't make anything less or more likely to happen.
Instead, the Fox let the thoughts drift out of his mind and leaned back in the canvas of the jump seat and closed his eye, letting the vibrations of the aircraft lull him to a restful state.
Alongside him, Alisha peered at the fox, and then looked further down at Max, also seeming to drift off to sleep, and shook her head, the pink-dyed quills rattling slightly as she did so.
"Unbelievable," she said with a wry smile. "Guess all the experience they have counts for something if they can both drift off to sleep with all this," she gestured around the bay at the noise surrounding them.
"Speak for yourself," Catriona replied with a wide yawn, stretching out both arms and fidgeting to try and get comfortable in her seat. Large as she was, it wasnt a great fit, but the bovine would make do. From under the shaggy fringe of red fur that covered her eyes, she looked across at the much shorter woman. "I can sleep anywhere, and if there's one thing I've learned from the chief over the weeks we've been here, it's that if he or Bastion do something, it's best to follow the example". She leaned back in the seat and settled down more comfortably, leaving the others to exchange glances, before Case leaned out and grinned at Alisha.
"Oi, Riser, I'll trade you all the desserts in my field rations if you can get a look under the boss's eyepatch".
Alisha raised an eyebrow and the quills on the back of her head bristled, before she looked over at Silverwind.
Without moving or opening an eye, the fox spoke.
"Don't even think about it, either of ya. I've got my eye on you".
"But, you've got your eyes closed?" Case said in disbelief
"Yeah," the fox replied, before yawning again. "But I still got my eye on ya".
@Silverwind Blade Hopefully its not too late for one more person to shout interest.
Not at all, my minimum was 3 + me, maximum is six altogether, so still plenty of space.
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Will it be possible to avert future events/tragedies somehow, like the events of Narrative and Hathaway's Flash?
I'm not overly familiar with Hathaway's Flash, although I have seen (and enjoyed) Narrative. However, as I said in the OP and in other posts, the idea is removing the player party from the Earth Sphere so that we don't have to worry too much about continuity and ongoing events as much, and can focus on creating our own story.
Regarding the interest, thanks y'all. Thats the minimum at least, so will work on getting an IC before the weekend.
Cool cool, that's you and I so far. I'll keep this open and hope we get a few more people interested as well.
Will we all be forced to be piloting Gm's, or Jegans? What exact time are we piloting these things? Zeon Remnants can be anything from the post one year war to Neo Zeon to the Sleeves
No, you won't be forced to pilot GM's or Jegans. It'll be a selection of various variant versions of those, and some mass-production Gundams and other suits. I haven't nailed down the specifics yet, but there'll be a healthy selection. Part of the units' background will be that they're also operational test/evaluation for previous models of mobile suit and putting them into action, and their mecha were pulled together from the remnants and left-overs from earlier conflicts and special groups that have since disbanded.
As I said in the opening post, I'm not going to be fretting too much over exact continuity, but for the sake of answering your question, post-Char's Counterattack but pre-Unicorn, or even alongside Unicorn, but removed from the Earth Sphere and more out in the asteroid belt/Mars/potentially even the Jovian system, leaving things free to not be too bothered by the same characters, events, etc. I will be deliberately ignoring any manga, side-stories, etc that happen in those places and times to tell my/our own story, and the same for post-CCA/UC100 continuity.
Also it will be a group of Zeon remnants generally smooshed together, consolidating under one group for survival etc and otherwise being a nuisance in the outer Solar System.
Will the RP be consistently grim? Or will the grimness be changeable by player actions?
I don't tend to go for relentlessly miserable RP's, because I do this for fun, not self-punishment. It'll have sad parts, there'll be a consistent sense of danger, but it won't be a case of 'anyone can die' or just a slog of awful things.
TBH, I don't think it's 'consistently grim' even in the source material; there are moments of levity, hope, and good things happening, and generally speaking there are heroic characters and moments too, and plenty of good and sympathetic people too.
It won't be a comedy, as I have no interest in running such a thing, and it won't be 'light and fluffy' because again, I have no interest in running/playing something like that. It'll be pretty much something where yes, bad things can happen, people can get hurt, and there are evil, nasty, or unscrupulous people around. But there's also moments of fun, moments of relaxation, moments of fun, etc etc.
Feel like I've rambled a bit there, but hopefully got the point across xD
The Gundam franchise shouldn't need too much of an introduction: The grand-daddy of the 'Real Robot' mech anime sub-genre, it spawned a whole slew of imitators, as well as a huge empire of merchandise, sequels, side-quels, prequels and alternate universes.
The major characteristics of a Gundam series are the focus on giant robot combat in space and on earth in a near-ish future setting, against a backdrop of emotional and personal drama, often focused on the idea that war is hell, and that no-one who goes through it comes out all right, and that everyone is someone's villain or hero. All things that have gone on to define the mecha anime genre over the years that have followed.
My particular favourite Gundam setting is the Universal Century, as I like its' level of technology, continuity, and the general 'feel' it has compared to some of the less 'grounded' (comparatively speaking; we're still dealing with giant robots here) parallel continuities. However, for the RP I'd like to run, I'll probably eject continuity after a certain point to avoid getting caught up in things, or at least not be beholden to it too strictly, so that we can run our own story.
The RP will follow a small group of Earth Federation mobile suit pilots on a ship outside of the regular area seen in the show, perhaps in the Asteroid belt, carrying out various missions and patrols against Zeon remnants or other hostile forces in support of asteroid mining colonies and resources. Players will be able to pick their own mobile suits (from within a certain part of the timeline, and Universal Century only to avoid things being too overpowered or mixed up), and there won't be any canon characters making more than cameo appearances and mentions.
The idea will to be try and stay true to the 'spirit' and feel of the shows and universe, balancing high-action and exciting action with some elements of relative realism (again, anime giant robot show) against the character drama and relationships, and not getting too mired down in the details and specifics in favour of fun, excitement, and moving the plot forward, as well as the characters getting to do cool things and be Big Damn Heroes.
Aiming to make this a casual RP, potentially even advanced. I'm fairly relaxed about posting rates and such as well, so looking for one post a week from each player would be fine.
You won't have to know masses and masses about Gundam or the Universal Century, but at least having seen, read, or otherwise knowing something about it would be ideal. As it is, there's loads of resources and info online I'll be using rather than writing out reams and reams of lore - why not take advantage of what's there already, after all.
Looking for a minimum of three players + myself to get started, and probably a maximum of no more than six in total.
Also, players will be restricted to playing Mobile Suit pilots, and for the Federation only; no enemy characters and no support personnel, as it's really hard as a GM to balance everything and keep giving people to do, in my personal experience.
The major characteristics of a Gundam series are the focus on giant robot combat in space and on earth in a near-ish future setting, against a backdrop of emotional and personal drama, often focused on the idea that war is hell, and that no-one who goes through it comes out all right, and that everyone is someone's villain or hero. All things that have gone on to define the mecha anime genre over the years that have followed.
My particular favourite Gundam setting is the Universal Century, as I like its' level of technology, continuity, and the general 'feel' it has compared to some of the less 'grounded' (comparatively speaking; we're still dealing with giant robots here) parallel continuities. However, for the RP I'd like to run, I'll probably eject continuity after a certain point to avoid getting caught up in things, or at least not be beholden to it too strictly, so that we can run our own story.
The RP will follow a small group of Earth Federation mobile suit pilots on a ship outside of the regular area seen in the show, perhaps in the Asteroid belt, carrying out various missions and patrols against Zeon remnants or other hostile forces in support of asteroid mining colonies and resources. Players will be able to pick their own mobile suits (from within a certain part of the timeline, and Universal Century only to avoid things being too overpowered or mixed up), and there won't be any canon characters making more than cameo appearances and mentions.
The idea will to be try and stay true to the 'spirit' and feel of the shows and universe, balancing high-action and exciting action with some elements of relative realism (again, anime giant robot show) against the character drama and relationships, and not getting too mired down in the details and specifics in favour of fun, excitement, and moving the plot forward, as well as the characters getting to do cool things and be Big Damn Heroes.
Aiming to make this a casual RP, potentially even advanced. I'm fairly relaxed about posting rates and such as well, so looking for one post a week from each player would be fine.
You won't have to know masses and masses about Gundam or the Universal Century, but at least having seen, read, or otherwise knowing something about it would be ideal. As it is, there's loads of resources and info online I'll be using rather than writing out reams and reams of lore - why not take advantage of what's there already, after all.
Looking for a minimum of three players + myself to get started, and probably a maximum of no more than six in total.
Also, players will be restricted to playing Mobile Suit pilots, and for the Federation only; no enemy characters and no support personnel, as it's really hard as a GM to balance everything and keep giving people to do, in my personal experience.
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