𝙈𝘼𝙎𝙎 ⟡ 𝙀𝙁𝙁𝙀𝘾𝙏 | SEEKING CREW TO TAKE ON THE REAPERS.

[minccino]

Hey there! This is an interest check for a Mass Effect RP that takes place between the events of Mass Effect 2 and 3
as the galaxy recognizes the looming Reaper threat and prepares for an intergalactic war. Instead of enjoying Commander
Shepard's story, the plot will follow the story of our crew. I am hoping that by having everyone in the same crew
that there will be plenty of opportunities for bonding moments and exciting interactions when combat comes into play.
Perhaps our dear Commander is a Renegade? Perhaps the crew is not Council-approved at all and are just a bunch of
space cowboys trying to make the galaxy a better place. We can discuss the details, but we need a crew first.

The RP will consist of original characters only and there will be a set roles that can be taken around the ship. A
Commander for sure, a doctor, a pilot, etc. It's all bare bones for now, but who would be interested in this venture? ​

 

[Sync]

It is rather fair, but I also like playing girl characters. Is my main point. But only if people were comfortable with me having a second character. That said, if I did it would be more so something in the way of either A ;Kelly Chambers. Or B; Some simple APC pilot who drives things like The Mako? (Totally a Tank Girl type personality if I did.) Essentially a B lister. Like those Scottish Engineers in ME2. Important enough to have dialogue but, not to take any center stage.

...you mean Kenneth and Gabby...? Those ones who also appear in ME3 if you do ME2 right?

I don't have a problem with you having a B character if you want. Totally up to you to manage, though. That said...depends on our illustrious GM.

 

[TheDecker]

Ya, I only mentioned Me 2 because they wouldn't be in everyone's playthroughs of 3. Ya know?

 

[Pepperjack]

Name: Tayon
Species: Take a wild guess.
Age: Wouldn't you like to know?
Sex: Yes.
Height: 6'0

Appearance

Crew Role: Engineer/Black Market Consultant (Wyvern)
Combat Role: I don't DO fighting, leave that to the Krogan.

Personality

1. Sass is Class: Tayon is, more than anything else, a sharp-witted individual. Able to verbally riposte and spar with even fast-minded Salarians they take great enjoyment in verbally befuddling those around them.
2. More than Smart: Tayon possesses a rather unusually adept memory for a presumed organic being as is something of an engineering marvel when it comes to putting things together or taking them apart. By their own admission everything they see, everyone they see, is as system of information to be taken apart, studied, weighed and measured.
3. Confidence is Key: Usually the best-dressed person in the room, by their own estimation, Tayon is incredibly full of themselves. Confident almost to a fault, their on saving grace is their willingness to respect competence in others, even while looking down their non-existent nose at them.
4. Friends Like Mine: Tayon possesses an extensive list of contacts from various walks of life all throughout Citadel space, and almost as many outside it, and has offered these 'friends' as he calls them for the crew's use in acquiring a wide selection of equipment for their use. Of course, not for free.

History

Tayon leans back with unnatural smoothness to the motion, inscrutable facemask trained on the cyborg across from them, fingers calmly curling around the ends of the seat in exacting, uniform spacing on both hands. Absolutely, perfectly symmetrical down to the folds in their suit as they regarded the 'female' cyborg in front of them. (@minccino) Silence permeated the air for a long moment, unnatural sheer surface meeting synthetic eyes before Tayon spoke. Their voice completely neutral, androgynous and twisted ever so slightly by the crackling of electronic sub-tuning. "Listen, you won't be getting a history lesson from me. Even a cute junk pile such as yourself would need more...." A leg casually rested itself atop Tayon's left knee as if to emphasize the next word. "..... MUCH more to learn more about me than I want. What you need to know, ALL you need to know, is that you and this merry band of misfits want to help avert catastrophe. A surprisingly sensible notion in this shit-show we call a galaxy, but I don't believe for a second any of you do it out of the kindness or goodness of your hearts.... or circuitry. No. But rather than HIDE my nefarious, double-reasoning I will be frank. I am here to make money and connections and offer the crew of this vessel whatever it is you might need to play at being heroes." Those hands would move with simultaneous, exacting motion again, fingers lacing together in front of Tayon's suited chest as they inclined their head slightly toward the female robocop. "When you think of it that way, why, I'm quite possibly the most generous person on this ship." Soft, echoing, synthetically altered laughter would leave Tayon for a moment before they stood, dusted their suit in more of a show than actually removing any offending particles, and would begin to walk away before pausing for only a moment and adding "You can be sure of TWO things during my time here. One: I want to see these things brought low just like everyone else. Two: You're horribly outdated and damaged. If you should want some... upgrades.... I'd be more than happy to oblige......"

 

[Pepperjack]

Hope y'all like it. ^_^

 

[Sync]

Nice, Blayze!

Okay, so here is the updated list of character profiles:

* Ganar Kar - Krogan/M - Captain ( @Lord DreamCrusher )
* Alani Liadon - Asari/F - asst. Medical Officer ( @Sync )
* Kassius Suldaning - Turian/M - Quartermaster ( @TheDecker )
* Xann - Quarian/M - Pilot ( @Silverbird )
* Sidera Nazario - Turian/F - Sensors & Comms ( @Queen Trish )
* Tayon - ???/?? - Engineer & Black Market ( @Blayze )

 

[Lord DreamCrusher]

@Sync Figured I'd update your list by actually linking the character posts themselves. (If in the future people can always edit their posts rather than making entirely new ones, it would help a list like this stay accurate)

* Ganar Kar - Krogan/M - Captain ( @Lord DreamCrusher )
* Alani Liadon - Asari/F - asst. Medical Officer ( @Sync )
* Kassius Suldaning - Turian/M - Quartermaster ( @TheDecker )
* Xann - Quarian/M - Pilot ( @Silverbird )
* Sidera Nazario - Turian/F - Sensors & Comms ( @Queen Trish )
* Tayon - ???/?? - Engineer & Black Market ( @Blayze )
* BLUE - Feminine AI - Hacking & Navigation ( @minccino )

 

[Sync]

Fair call. I didn't think about that.

But then...when we get this game/story moving, there'll likely be a Character Profile OOC thread that we'll be posting to.

If not...then maybe adding the post-linked list into the top of this thread so we can find it easily...?

 

[Lord DreamCrusher]

Yeah when it does get started I figure we'll have a thread for character profiles or such. Just that, for now, I figured it would be handy for people to be able to more easily find the respective profiles when planning their own out.

 

[minccino]

I love how this team is coming together and our newest addition! I think for now we'll keep it to one character each, as there may be a possibility others may join us in the future and I want to keep some roles open for them as well. My profile mock-up will be coming shortly.

 

[minccino]

Name: BLUE
Species: AI
Gender: It/Presents as "female"
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 43 lb. (Designed to be portable and mobile)
Occupation: Operated as an anti-AI program later finessed into an AI
Combat Role: None
Crew Role: Glorified GPS and Advanced Hacking Program

Quote: "Organic matter is not so different from technology. Both can be infected, corrupted, and rewritten if its foundation is weak and unprotected. I am programmed to detect weakness in both machinery and men. Even the most advanced of designs crumble when I am in them."

Weapons: None (Please don't give the destructive AI a weapon)
Biotic Powers: None

Appearance

BLUE (for the horrific blue error screen) was an ambitious lifelong project by a rogue Salarian hacker by the name of Tazzik Wiks. Wiks was a notorious anti-AI activist, who strayed from the conventional methods to bring down AI and thought to fight fire with fire. Instead of inventing just an isolated virus to infect existing AI/VI, Wiks created BLUE to be intelligent enough to break the strongest firewalls and infect the most well-protected AIs. Like an advanced virus, BLUE replicates the hosts that it infects, collecting important fragments of its security protocols to then dismantle others'.

Though Wiks had a breadwinner on his hands, the radical hacktivist lacked funding and moral support. Desperate, Wiks turned to mercenary groups (namely the Blue Suns) for commissions. The Blue Suns were able to utilize BLUE to their advantage in their ongoing stalemate against the Eclipse, and again to smuggle goods in and out of the Citadel. When word eventually got around that there was an AI capable of ripping technological security at the seams, many mercenary groups became interested, and Aria T'Loak even more so. Furious that this tool may disillusion the mercenary groups under her thumb to rebel against her, she ordered for Wiks' assassination and the possession of the anti-AI.

How the crew comes across BLUE:

• Aria T'Loak bargains with the crew to give BLUE to them in return for a favor (the mission to reunite the mercenary groups under Aria's leadership, perhaps?)
• Tazzik Wiks is a close associate of a crew member and has given them the true BLUE program (having foreseen his assassination), and likely pissed off Aria by handing over a very convincing but largely ineffective "copy" of its program
• A henchman of Aria's agrees to sell BLUE to the crew in exchange for them overthrowing Aria. This henchman's plan either succeeds or fails depending on the crew's decision to either work against or with the Asari

Open to other suggestions as to how she joins the crew, but I wanted to give some options that may determine the course of the RP in the future, and so others can weigh in what their character will and won't do.

 

[Lord DreamCrusher]

Kar probably wouldn't be interested in the first suggestion. I know that for this game he's technically ex-Blood Pack but he's also Krogan, he's not the type to want to work under others for long periods of time (at least not when it comes to the nitty-gritty of mercenary work) so I don't see him happy to cut a deal with Aria. Aria does more or less control the groups on Omega but they also all hate her.

Option 2 or 3 would work a lot better in my opinion. Personally I quite like option 2 of Tazzik giving her over and duping Aria into buying a fake. It could cause more tension with Aria without, necessarily, binding us into any direct action against her. It gives us the option of trying to take her down if she causes too much trouble for us but it also leaves the potential of just avoiding her forces and focusing on our work against the Reapers.

Option 3 would, more or less, force us to at least try and take her down and would have us devote a decent amount of time to that. This could certainly be a lot of fun, I'm not saying I'm against that, but I'm less interested in introduction ideas that entangle the group in something completely unavoidable compared to something that gives us all more possibilities to work around.

 

[Pepperjack]

@minccino I'm all for option 2 as it would make sense for Tayon to be an associate of Wiks's. Sets up Tayon and BLUE interactions/banter for fun later. ^_^

 

[Fandomizer]

I am interested. What kinds of openings still exist?

 

[Sync]

@minccino - Option 2 works for me as well. Gives Blayze's character a starting, known contact for Black Market matters; gives BLUE an immediate in with the rest of the crew (assuming we just don't kill Tayon for the hell of it O.O ); doesn't tie us down into possibly-distracting side-issues when we're trying to focus on Reapers.

Also, the way this crew is shaping up, we may all have past ties with the various "major" merc groups, and are mercs ourselves, but we're running as a freelance outfit, not tied to any command but our own. Hell, we might have, at least individually, even pissed off the major groups, such that "returning to the fold" could cause tensions or hostilities we may not want or need when we've got Reapers all over our asses.

@Fandomizer - Greetings! Well...this ain't Starfleet, or even the Alliance, so we don't have fixed roles as such. The current profile roster a few posts above this one will give you an idea of what we currently have.

I'm going to guess that, in addition to the current roster, BLUE will be sitting in the co-pilot's chair doing navigation, assisting with general flight operations, and effectively being our own version of EDI with the electronic attacking and counter-attacking aspect.

Roles are effectively open, with anything missing filled by the NPC crew. For example, it's entirely possible that Alani, while listed as being assistant to the Ship's Doctor, might instead find herself BEING the Ship's Doctor on this smaller vessel. We're a down-and-dirty crew, not a polished outfit. Certainly open to you throwing ideas around and seeing what works.

 

[Pepperjack]

@minccino - Option 2 works for me as well. Gives Blayze's character a starting, known contact for Black Market matters; gives BLUE an immediate in with the rest of the crew (assuming we just don't kill Tayon for the hell of it O.O ); doesn't tie us down into possibly-distracting side-issues when we're trying to focus on Reapers.

Also, the way this crew is shaping up, we may all have past ties with the various "major" merc groups, and are mercs ourselves, but we're running as a freelance outfit, not tied to any command but our own. Hell, we might have, at least individually, even pissed off the major groups, such that "returning to the fold" could cause tensions or hostilities we may not want or need when we've got Reapers all over our asses.

@Fandomizer - Greetings! Well...this ain't Starfleet, or even the Alliance, so we don't have fixed roles as such. The current profile roster a few posts above this one will give you an idea of what we currently have.

I'm going to guess that, in addition to the current roster, BLUE will be sitting in the co-pilot's chair doing navigation, assisting with general flight operations, and effectively being our own version of EDI with the electronic attacking and counter-attacking aspect.

Roles are effectively open, with anything missing filled by the NPC crew. For example, it's entirely possible that Alani, while listed as being assistant to the Ship's Doctor, might instead find herself BEING the Ship's Doctor on this smaller vessel. We're a down-and-dirty crew, not a polished outfit. Certainly open to you throwing ideas around and seeing what works.

WOW. I see how it is. I make a slightly sassy character and you throw the kitchen Sync at me.

 

[Sync]

WOW. I see how it is. I make a slightly sassy character and you throw the kitchen Sync at me.

 

[TheDecker]

I am interested. What kinds of openings still exist?

Basically make the character you want and associate a role you feel is right, dont worry about overlap really because the only important role taken is ship captain. You can make our chief medical officer for example! Or perhaps a co pilot for our Quarian chief Helmsman? Perhaps someone who acts as our Executive Officer when Our Captain and commanding officer -Kar- Is not around?

 

[Vytheril]

Hey, is there room still open? Just moved into my new apartment.

 

[Fandomizer]

Maybe a Mako/Tank specialist who not only drives it but also does mechanic work on it? Might also pilot other small vehicles from the ship's hangar depending on what we have in there.

 

[Pepperjack]

@Vytheril Far as I know there's still room amigo. We have a roster posted above already, so feel free to find yourself a spot on the ship! ^_^

 

[TheDecker]

Maybe a Mako/Tank specialist who not only drives it but also does mechanic work on it? Might also pilot other small vehicles from the ship's hangar depending on what we have in there.

I like the idea! See, There ya go. She can even be an artillery specialist in general, not just a pilot of APC's and Tanks.

 

[TheDecker]

Maybe a Mako/Tank specialist who not only drives it but also does mechanic work on it? Might also pilot other small vehicles from the ship's hangar depending on what we have in there.

And yes! Not sure how big the GM is hoping for this to get but there is plenty of room on board.

 

[Fandomizer]

She'd be useful to the engineer on the main ship too, as she can sub in as an assistant and might even be able to fly the ship in an emergency if something happened to the pilot. But mainly she's just there to calibrate guns. XD

 

[Pepperjack]

She'd be useful to the engineer on the main ship too, as she can sub in as an assistant and might even be able to fly the ship in an emergency if something happened to the pilot. But mainly she's just there to calibrate guns. XD

Duly noted. xP

I'm sure Tayon will be..... well.... snarky as usual.

 

[Vytheril]

@Vytheril Far as I know there's still room amigo. We have a roster posted above already, so feel free to find yourself a spot on the ship! ^_^

I'm hopelessly lost lol but where is this Roster you're referring to. Is it the one Sync has made or is there a separate one?