Stern Algorithm

Mobile Suit Gundam: Throne of the False King

Damien turned his eyes to the road and grinned. "Come on Nalia you act like I'm dragging you all out here with out any sort of plan."

@Keyblade87

"Well, I must admit I thought this was a spur of the moment decision. But if you've got a plan, then please fill us in." Nalia requested and listened intently as the car, packed with all that remained of their previous lives, continued on its way.

Pariah Online: Prologue [ closed ]

@Stern Algorithm, I was thinking - Landon and Tessa are in the same pathos, and maybe early on, Landon tried to sweet-talk Tessa. I imagine she would have repulsed him immediately, and probably still views him with a certain contempt that makes it awkward between them whenever they have to work together. Landon would definitely regret what happened and try his best to smooth things over, but given his propensity for flirting with the ladies in general, he probably would look awful in her eyes, a representation of the hypocrisy of relationships.

I'm basing what I think might be her reactions off of what you posted before about her personality, and I think it might be neat to have this as one of the few before-the-RP-started relationships that Landon might have.

Whatchu think of that? I want to run it by you before solidifying that as part of the story.

@Tergonaut

That's pretty much exactly how she would react. I have no qualms about this setup.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

I forgot to tag @Skepic in my post.

Also, are you familiar with Youjo Senki AKA The Saga of Tanya the Evil? Your character being a German woman with thoughts of 'sending someone to a pillbox to be shelled by enemy artillery' was something that actually happened in like the first or second episode of the anime.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

Come in, Hajar Mezgouri, this is Scotti McCrae of the Bronx mission control. Looks like youve been promoted, as of right now your file officially has you as the Bronx Pilot of the New York 5. I'm really sorry to hear about Eldon, but I've seen your reports, you are a great pilot in your own right. You are about 4 mins away from the combat zone in brooklyn, your co pilots are Larcen Fields, Ken Yi, Alex Robins and Hannah Von Falkenhiem. Theyve just made contact with the enemy, it looks like a straight up dogfight, but be aware there are Dangerous Ground Targets to be aware of, the Jersey Devils like to get the edge in the air by fighting near their own Anti Air Guns and garrisoned buildings. Good Luck Pilot!

@Dynamo Frokane

Astaghfirullah! (God have mercy) Hajar swore mentally as she flew towards the combat zone, the wind still whistling through the hole in the cockpit where the bullet that hit Eldon had come through. One of the mercenaries her village had temporarily hired, Eldin had lost his plane in a particularly bad fight, but had managed to parachute to safety. Grounded, he was willing to mentor Hajar in the ways of air combat in exchange for letting him take Israfil as his own. They had spent a few years together as teacher and student, pilot and co-pilot, as she received hands on training, making small airborne repairs to the plane, as well as modifying it to her ease of use. Eldon had been telling her for a while that she was ready to pilot herself. Sure she could fly the plane, but she had never been in a fight alone. She thought that in her first fight, she would just switch seats with Eldon, but as she flew, the co-pilot's seat was hauntingly empty.

Looking to her tablet computer, she flipped around, accessing the playlist, and selecting just the track to take her mind off of Eldon and get her into combat mood, flipping back to her homebrew turret management program once song started.

"Alright you Jersey shayateen (plural for shaytan, Arabic for devil), let me play for you the song of my people! Allahu akbar, Motherfuckers!" Hajar shouted into her mic, her abrasive voice being blasted from the loudspeakers that were mounted on the outside of Israfil from back when it still served as a city defense building. However the song that followed was anything but what one would consider traditional North African music.

Pillar Men

Israfil plowed towards JD5, laying in with its forward facing mini-guns, Hajar adding in a bit of extra fire power with the front turrets as well, though using the top swivel turret to fire at the ascending JD1. Of course trying to pilot and control several turrets at once was no walk in the park, and Hajar had little hope for real accuracy, but she hoped that some covering fire would disrupt whatever team tactic JD1 and 5 had planned for Hannah. She planned essentially to distract them, give Hannah an opportunity to react, and then head towards the gun emplacements. Of course, she was also keeping an eye out for anything that might look like a ground-based jammer.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

Is Hajar all ready to go? I'm about to write her in to the current Act.

@Dynamo Frokane

Yup, I'll make an intro post and get her into battle.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

Here is my redone/updated CS with plane included. It's still up for change if and when @Verdaux submits their CS

@Dynamo Frokane, feel free to give me some 'weapon upgrades' as you see fit. Other than the weapons you mentioned as being mandatory for Hunter Class, I just included whatever Wikipedia said was the normal load out for my plane.

Hajar and Israfil

CO-PILOT
Name: Hajar Mezgouri
Age: 23
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 120lbs
Co-pilot Class: Hunter
Nationality: Moroccan
Appearance:

Bio:

Born in North Africa, Hajar grew up in an environment that was comprised of meek village folk just trying to eke out a survival, the religious: both spiritual pacifists and militant zealots, and the foreign mercenaries who offered them protection for a price. Energetic, curious, and aggressively forward, Hajar apprenticed under her father as the 'tinkerer' of their small, mishmash community, fixing things or setting up utilities with found ancient technology. Her personality lent her to interact with the mercenaries quite often and her technical expertise came to be applied to their planes, helping to not only repair damage, but also to modify or customize their planes.

Theme Song:

PLANE:


Name: Israfil
Plane Type: B-17G Bomber "Flying Fortress"
Extra Aircraft Notes:

Israfil was a derelict husk that had crashed near Hajar's village in some bygone war and in the past, has served as a village defense with the body used to house civilians during times of crisis and with the turrets being manned, making the 'flying fortress' a literal fortress. However as the village grew outward from the crashed plane, it became less and less used, and mercenaries were hired to protect the village instead. It became Hajar's dream to give their village's 'guardian angel' wings again, so she set to work with the other engineers of the town to make it fly again. The other engineers' motivation was simply to get the large, cumbersome thing out of and away from the city center. It took a lot of time, effort and resources, but they finally succeeded in making Israfil air-worthy again. By this point, Hajar knew she wanted to become a mercenary herself and took the Israfil with her, looking for opportunity. Over the years, Hajar has managed to add motors and cameras to the various turrets and connected the whole setup to a small, handheld electronic device, allowing her to control all the turrets from a single control panel (the tablet).

Weapons Descriptions:

• 2 forward facing mini-guns
• 13 × .50 in. M2 Browning machine guns in 8 positions (2 in the Bendix chin turret, 2 on nose cheeks, 2 staggered waist guns, 2 in upper Sperry turret, 2 in Sperry ball turret in belly, 2 in the tail and one firing upwards from radio compartment behind bomb bay)
• 12 'bunker buster' bombs
• 8000 lbs. of bombs

Weaknesses:

Israfil is slow and unmaneuverable, unable to dodge or really dogfight, relying instead on its extra armor and turret coverage to fight back against enemy planes. Though it's turrets prevent it from having very many blind spots, it's difficult for Hajar to keep her eyes on all the tiny vidscreens on her tablet so she might end up missing enemy planes, or not bring enough of the turret guns to bear to provide significant coverage. Israfil's turret setup is also extremely susceptible to enemy interference, having been jury rigged from scrap components and simple electronics. Israfil is also extremely old, so it's navigations and communications systems are also weak to ECM.

Past Encounter:

None

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

@Stern Algorithm@Verdaux hows the plane coming along?

@Dynamo Frokane

I was gonna let @Verdaux flesh this out since I don't know a Tomahawk from a Sidewinder

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

Here's my character. Sort of a WIP until I can fill in details for how she and @Verdaux's character came to work together. I hope no one will take offense if my character mixes religious, Arabic, Muslim phrases alongside intense swearing.

Hajar

CO-PILOT
Name: Hajar Mezgouri
Age: 23
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 120lbs
Co-pilot Class: Hunter
Nationality: Moroccan
Appearance:

Bio:

Born in North Africa, Hajar grew up in an environment that was comprised of meek village folk just trying to eke out a survival, the religious: both spiritual pacifists and militant zealots, and the foreign mercenaries who offered them protection for a price. Energetic, curious, and aggressively forward, Hajar apprenticed under her father as the 'tinkerer' of their small, mishmash community, fixing things or setting up utilities with found ancient technology. Her personality lent her to interact with the mercenaries quite often and her technical expertise came to be applied to their planes, helping to not only repair damage, but also to modify or customize their planes.

Theme Song:

PLANE: PENDING

Name:
Plane Type:
Extra Aircraft Notes:

Weapons Descriptions:

Weaknesses:

Past Encounter:
WIP

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

@Stern Algorithm

Aw...I wanted to be the gunner...

Sounds good to me. Hell, you can probably get the rest of the plane to be automated for one person.

@Verdaux

Flying the plane and controlling some of the weapons (specifically, any weapon that's strictly forward-facing) would be the pilot's job.

As pilot, did you want to write up the plane's description?

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

@Stern Algorithm take the wheel.

I mean this seriously; who doesn't want to be the guy manning one of the turrets to fill the sky with lead? We don't need no Ace or Rabbit to cover for us.

@Verdaux

Did you mean "take the wheel" as in be the pilot? Sorry, I was a little confused.

I was thinking my character jury-rigged the turrets with motors and cameras and such and hooked them all up to the ancient technology that is an iPad, allowing one person to play turret-management from a central location. Such a system would be extremely susceptible to ECM as per hunter weaknesses. Whichever of us takes the copilot position would probably have this job.