Stern Algorithm

Brass Engine Online (VKAllen and Stern Algorithm 1x1)

Sorry for the long wait, I'm back.

Brass Engine Online (VKAllen and Stern Algorithm 1x1)

"Yeah!" Tess agreed. "Sure," Sartorius added, as they followed Rixxy.

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Weeks passed, then months. As the crisis continued, people became more compliant with the GM's demands for information sharing. What started out as either anger or apathy quickly became a desperate concern. People realized that they had been logged in for days, indicating that something was keeping their real bodies alive. Others were not so lucky, as they slowly became weaker and weaker from hunger and dehydration, until their avatars suddenly vanished. It was easily assumed that their bodies had died, that whatever paramedics had been deployed to provide life support to the trapped players had not reached them in time. It also implied that they couldn't simply be 'unplugged', or people in the real world would have been unplugging everyone and in a matter of days everyone would have been freed. It was assumed that unplugging a player probably resulted in death. Nobody ever logged in either. Another new thing that happened as well was that damage sustained in the game became the sensation of real pain proportional to the amount of total health. And especially disconcerting was the fact that when an avatar died, it was extremely painful, and they didn't respawn. This last thing then, became the great unknown, what happened to the player when the avatar died? Did they get freed from the system, or did that cause them to die as well? Since there were never any new log ins, there was no way of knowing what was on the 'other side', what was going on in the 'real world'. A few groups of players had resorted to cultish, mass suicides in the hopes that they would be freed, but the GM's highly discouraged this. Eventually, what remained was a community of players that had decided to remain indefinitely until the situation was resolved on the other end, forming a microcosm community consisting of a central government ran by GM's, as well as some fringe elements.

He Who Hunts Monsters

Okay. I'm working on a Colossus, but can we have more than one character, or not?

just curious.

@iDunbanFan

Yeah, basically what @Tricheus said. At this point, I am considering Projects Titan and Colossus full, so any additional character you make would either have to be in Project Myrmidon, a member of the general CETM support staff, or a civilian.

Brass Engine Online (VKAllen and Stern Algorithm 1x1)

Please excuse me for about 5 days, I need to devote my 'writing-related resources' (private time, brainpower, etc.) to a talk I need to give.

Thank you for your patience.

Also, are you good with a timeskip to wrap up the early figuring out the premise, or do you want it to play out a little more?

Evolution of Conflict: A Sci-Fi Mecha 1x1 FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm

Please excuse me for about 5 days, I need to devote my 'writing-related resources' (private time, brainpower, etc.) to writing a talk I need to give.

Thank you for your patience.

He Who Hunts Monsters

@Oak7ree great, you can add 'Lieutenant Commander' Conwood to the Characters tab. Sorry about the rank change, CETM uses Naval officer rankings. On that note, @KatherinWinter, Griffin's rank will be Ensign. All Colossus characters are technically 'Naval Aviators' like those who pilot aircraft from aircraft carriers.

So just a heads up to everyone, I recently put up an Interest Check for this RP and recruited 3-4 new players with very specific character requests. @Oak7ree's character is the Colossus pilot that helped take down EO2. As Walker Rex was the first Colossus and proved successful, @KatherinWinter's colossus and the ones it will combine with are Colossus Mark 2 in a sense, an attempt to improve upon an already successful platform. Two others, @iDunbanFan and @vFear should be making Colossus pilots whose Colossi will combine with @KatherinWinter's. They should be contacting you to collaborate on mech design and such if they have not done so already. And lastly, we will be getting another Titan character, whose powers will come from EO1.

EDIT: The Titan chaaracter will be played by @GingerBoi123

Evolution of Conflict: A Sci-Fi Mecha 1x1 FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm

"Yeah, I wish he didn't have such a chip on his shoulder," Israfil agreed.

"Sure," Tera said, heading over to the recreation room with Claire. "Are there any games that you're familiar with, or did you want to learn something new?"

The Village of Soren (a 1x1 Harvest Moon/Rune Factory-inspired Village RP for FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm)

Jeel was sitting outside her house on a rocking chair that was obviously of dwarvish make, carding wool. Behind the house, a sizable plot of land could be seen that included crops, pastures, and a barn. "Welcome," Jeel said upon seeing Illithor, "did you need something?"

He Who Hunts Monsters Interest Check (A giant monster fighting RP)

Alright, I am closing this interest check, expect PM's shortly.

He Who Hunts Monsters Interest Check (A giant monster fighting RP)

What I'm looking for

I'm looking for two additional players for my RP (preferably to join Project Colossus, explained below). I expect you to be able to post 4-7 times a week (so about once every other day to about once a day-ish). I expect a certain level of long-term dedication. I expect decent grammar. While I won't dictate minimum post-lengths, I expect quality posts that are sufficiently descriptive and involve attempts at moving the plot forward; if no one's interacting with your character, then make your character go out of their way to interact with someone else. Reply here or PM me only if you can commit to this. I'm not a mean GM, I've just had my fair share of uncommitted players and dying RPs.

Now on to the juicy stuff.

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Explanation

The RP is basically about fighting giant monsters, so it will probably seem like a crossover of Attack on Titan, Ultraman, and Pacific Rim/Power Rangers, but with a dash of Lovecraftian horror. The theme will be a little more on the "dark and serious" side like AoT, and not as overly campy as Ultraman or Power Rangers, so I suppose Evangelion might be a pretty good reference too.

The following is the basic premise:

After a few initial alien attacks that devastated a few nations, mankind created an organization to defend against the giant monsters that were coming to earth. The organization is constantly trying out new and innovative ways to combat this extraterrestrial menace, coming up with a multi-pronged approach: a traditional military unit with state-of-the-art technology, giant humanoid robot to fight toe-to-toe with the giant monsters, individuals who have volunteered to be infused with alien material and gained the ability to grow in size, the use of individuals gifted with telepathy, and a cutting edge research team. Will mankind be able to stave off these monsters? How far is humanity willing to go to protect itself? Will they learn the origin of the creatures attacking them?

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Backstory

Extraterrestrial Incident One happened in the autumn of 2083. The object had been too small to be of any notice to space agencies across the globe though its impact in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was noted. Days later, Extraterrestrial Organism One appeared in New York City, bringing terror and destruction, all but crippling the financial infrastructure of the United States and destroying the United Nations building. The National Guard, as well as other branches of the US Military, were brought in to take down the creature, the ensuing battle resulting in a tremendous amount of collateral damage with no real damage being done to the alien beast. It was eventually lured back out to sea where a decision was made to attack it with a nuclear weapon. The attack was successful in finally stopping the creature's rampage, but the United States had taken a serious blow and the world was left with one lingering question: are there others?

To prepare for just such an eventuality, a special committee of the United Nations Security Council was created: the Committee for Extraterrestrial Threat Mitigation. While a nuclear weapon was successful in stopping Extraterrestrial Organism One, repeated usage of nuclear weaponry was not a viable long-term solution: fishing in the Atlantic has all but halted due to fallout and radioactive contamination from the missile that ended Extraterrestrial Incident One. The CETM's purpose was to develop non-nuclear methods of dealing with future alien threats, resulting initially in two projects, Myrmidon: an 'upgrade' of existing military technology and organization, and Colossus: a project to develop giant constructs on the same scale as Extraterrestrial Organism One that could fight the aliens on their level. The CETM was divided into two branches, the Atlantic and the Pacific, as it was determined that impacting aliens had a pretty high chance of landing in the water, due to the fact that 75% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, and that an impact into the solid ground may be lethal, even for these monstrosities. Each branch is based on an island in their respective ocean near the equator, so forces stationed there had even odds of reaching either the north or the south should an impact occur.

Eventually, Extraterrestrial Incident Two occurred, this time in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Branch of CETM, led by Secretary Oleander, intercepted the alien with the Myrmidon naval fleet and their first Colossus. After a difficult battle, the CETM forces managed to take down Extraterrestrial Organism Two, though both the fleet and the Colossus sustained terrible damage. Still, there were no civilian casualties, proving the CETM was a success in practice. Using material from the two downed Extraterrestrial Organisms, a third project was started, the controversial Project Titan.

Then came the secret Extraterrestrial Incident Three, and the arrival of Extraterrestrial Organism Three, known by the moniker, Mr. E. Unlike the other Organisms, Mr. E was not hostile, in fact, it came to warn humanity of the impending arrivals of other Organisms, and to prepare us to combat these horrors from space. The year is now 2090, seven years after Extraterrestrial Incident One. Extraterrestrial Organism Four approaches...

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A note about characters

Now this RP may be a little different than others you may have participated in, because I want very much to prompt and guide the creation of your characters. The first order of business is I want you to 'reserve' your 'roles'. While I will allow multiple characters, I don't want people to go wild quite yet. I want everyone to at least have their main character be 'in on the action', to be someone who will participate in anti-monster combat. This means the characters will be in one of three divisions:

Project Colossus:

Your character will pilot a giant humanoid mecha (Pacific Rim/Power Rangers/Evangelion, etc.).

Project Titan:

Your character will be infused with alien material and can grow in size to combat the monsters (Ultraman/Eren Jaeger).

Project Myrmidon:

Your character is a traditional soldier in a navy-like division. They will either be a fighter pilot, or a crew member of an aircraft carrier, destroyer, or nuclear submarine. These people will provide support for Projects Colossus and Titan (Think the JSDF from Godzilla movies, or Shingeki no Kyojin sort of).

While Colossus characters and Titan characters need not be unique, I don't want everyone piling into one project. However, if no one makes a Myrmidon character, I don't really mind at all, since I can just control them as NPC's anyways. And while the mood of the story veers a little dark, your characters don't have to be moody or anything, and we can totally play off of the tropes of the movies or shows that inspired this idea, for example, if two people make Colossus characters, then their mechs can totally combine to form a 'megazord'-like thing, so don't feel too restricted. One thing though, the technology is fairly to close to what we have now, just a little bit further into the future where giant mechs are just starting to be feasible, kind of like Pacific Rim but with a lot fewer mechs than they had.

If you want your character to have telepathy, ask me first and I will consider it.

If you want to make a secondary character, you can, they can be part of the Projects, support staff like researchers, engineers, or military chain-of-command, or civilians.