Battletech OOC/Registration (Still open)

[Strykla]

Coming soon: New Battletech: Chronicles of the GSS soundtrack...and more...

But to tide people over, here is a sampler from the second version:

Single #1
Single #2

Also, hope my latest post wasn't off-putting, figured a little exposition to get the ball rolling again was in order

First was too electronic for me. Second was alright.
1812 Overture is, however, probably the best song ever written and haz cannonz. I vote Overture to be this RP's ultimate theme.

[Northern Dominus]

Coming soon: New Battletech: Chronicles of the GSS soundtrack...and more...

But to tide people over, here is a sampler from the second version:

Single #1
Single #2

Also, hope my latest post wasn't off-putting, figured a little exposition to get the ball rolling again was in order

First was too electronic for me. Second was alright.
1812 Overture is, however, probably the best song ever written and haz cannonz. I vote Overture to be this RP's ultimate theme.

...really? Are we going to do this again?
Do I have to whip out the samples of previous MW games one more time?

At the very least could you wait until the entire thing is released Stryk...

Or you could...you know... devote the text and energy to posting IC?

[SaintB]

I'd appreciate if people would send some pokes or at least ask if people are still alive/waiting for things to p ick up since I have no time to do it

[Strykla]

I'd appreciate if people would send some pokes or at least ask if people are still alive/waiting for things to p ick up since I have no time to do it

Like this?

*poke*

Get your ass over to the Battletech thread! Start posting most ricky-tick, maggot!

[Northern Dominus]

I'd appreciate if people would send some pokes or at least ask if people are still alive/waiting for things to p ick up since I have no time to do it

Like this?

*poke*

Get your ass over to the Battletech thread! Start posting most ricky-tick, maggot!

That would most definetly work.

So who's been contacted in the past week let's say?

[Northern Dominus]

As promised...
Battletech: Chronicles of the Gun Special Squadrons
Official Soundtrack
[1]Knights of Cydonia- Muse
[2]Acetone- The Crystal Method
[3]No Rest for the Wicked- Saxon
[4]Seconds- U2
[5]The Mercenary- Iron Maiden
[6]CMND/CNTRL- Deftones
[7]Pts of Athrty- Linkin Park
[8]Israel's Son- Silverchair
[9]Piranha- The Prodigy
[10]Metallic Division- Fear Factory
[11]Ambush- Sepultura
[12]Time is Running Out- Apollo 440
[13]Iron Piston- FnMRANDY
[14]Song 2- Blur
[15]Rooster- Alice in Chains
[16]Mean Spirits- Silversun Pickups
[17]Vapour- Boom Boom Sattelites
[18]Good Day to Die- Godsmack
[19]Death or Glory- The Clash
[20]Big Gun- AC/DC
[21]Empire- Hybrid
[22]Light in the Black- Sabaton
[bonus]Knights of Cydonia (instrumental)- Muse

But wait, there's more....
Battletech: Chronicles of the Gun Special Squadrons
Official Score
(All songs written and performed by E.S. Posthumus except for Knights of Cydonia, written by Muse, perfromed by Vitamin String Quartet)
Motus Unus: Collectio
Nara
Manju
Arise
Motus Duo: Certamen
Tikal
Pompei
Varuna
Kuvera
Anumatti
Vishnu
Durga
Motus Tres: Vistas
Lavanya
Harappa
Cuzco
Estremoz
Motus Quattuor: Triumphantis
Indra
Lepcis Magna
Ulaid
Epilogo
Knights of Cydonia

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After much hashing-re-hashing, considering, and a bit of procrastination, here is the complete work. I apologize, I know it's a lot to take in, but I had a big idea that needed to be brought out as it were.

So leave it up to you SaintB, is this sufficient enough of a pallete to add sonic density to the story of GSS in 3069?

[Occupied Deutschland]

I'm still here.

I'll work on a post for the IC, try to have it up here by the weekend at the latest.

[Northern Dominus]

SaintB, you can safely take down Gawdzendia as a playing character, he's now an ex nation, and I suspect Taurus Concordiat is headed that way as well.

[JuNii]

I'd appreciate if people would send some pokes or at least ask if people are still alive/waiting for things to p ick up since I have no time to do it

Kat is still sleeping... so awaiting the next day and the next test.

[Northern Dominus]

13. Strip a mech of all armor, load it up with infernos or other munitions, and play bumper bots
14. Mount a jump jet on the arm of a mech and shout "Rocket Punch!"
15. Mount a flamer on the butt of a mech... for any reason...
16. Record the Eagle eye cams on the LRMs being fired on infantry and post them on Youtube under the heading "Watch their expression!"
17. do not play Mech Kickball with the enemy mech's head.
18. try to 'skate' on the battlefield by stepping on two tanks.
19. hack into the enemy's com frequency and play Rebecca Black's Friday on infinite loop.
20. push my mech to overheat so that my Stim Drink stays warm.

21. Insist that the "Mech Pull" is not a standard PT exercise and is not rooted int radition
b. Neither is taking the morning run across the firing range, especially when the assault mechs are calibrating their weapons
c. No longer allowed to lead PT drills.
22. To respond to a legitimate order from my direct superior with the following; "Not until you say please", "I issue a batchall for a trial of refusal to that order", "Can I have that again via official Comstar transmission?" or "Repeat please" in a polish accent.
23. I am forbidden from giving my crew chief and his maintenance crew any brownies laced with necrosia
b. Nor am I allowed to give them stim drinks laced with absinthe.
24. Not allowed to challenge tank crews to duels at dawn for any reason whatsoever.

25. I am not allowed to paint a Tarantula pink and call it Pinkie Pie
26. I am not allowed to paint aerospace fighters blue and call them Rainbow Dash
27a. I am not allowed to mount machine guns where a Fafnir's gauss rifles would be
27b. Particularly not the Fafnir my commander uses
28. I am not allowed to disappear for five months

Just to keep this rolling.
29. I am not the illegitimate child of Grayson Death Carslyle. Therefore the following tactics are not viable options
a. Powering down, dismounting from the cockpit of a mech and firing at enemy mechs with your personal sidearm to "find the sweet spot"
b. Replacing jump jets with horizontally mounted flamers to create "flaming wings of doom" to frighten the enemy
c. Any offensive manuever classified as a "zerg rush"
30. I am not allowed to replace the standard computerized voice in my commanding officers' mech with "Clippy"
31. Magazines that feature models from the Magistracy of Canopus posing nude are not official field manuals
a. Nor are they motivational tools for the infantry
b. Even if you can acquire enough copies to distribute one each to the entire battalion.
32. When returning from field operations, I am not allowed to respond to questions about ammunition expenditures with "I'm out of ammo? Gee I had 1 ton left half an hour ago."
a. On a related note, when returning sensitive items to the armory, after all items are returned asking if anybody had seen my bayonet/explosives and detonators/support laser will result in a 30 day suspension of privileges.
33. I am not allowed to use ammunition crates to set up a makeshift ring to stage fights between goliath scorpions.
a. Especially if monetary bets are being placed.
b. Stating that the house winnings will go to a war orphan's fund does not supercede the suspension of goliath scorpion fighting and betting.
c. Related to the above, placing the "winner" of these fights on your shoulder like a parrot and parading around with it is not advisable.
34. The following items cannot be purchased at the base PX: Economy sized containers of necrosia, crates of Drune II melon seeds, Capellan hookers, and Atlas assault mechs. One must aquire an official and signed chit first.
a. Even if I am able to aquire the required chit, I still require verbal clerance from my chain of command for PX staff.
c. Especially if I am a dropship crewman ordering an Atlas assault mech.
35. My Aerospace fighter is not equipped with the following: Bullshit sensors, flathatting approval meters, I-wish-you-were-dead missiles, Naval PPCs,
36. My heavy aerospace fighter is not capable of "ludicrous speed" in space
a. I am not to demonstrate this claim to visiting top brass via "buzzing the tower:".
b. I am not to demonstrate to executives who own the company that make my aerospace fighters either.
c. I am no longer allowed to demonstrate the capabilities of my aerospace fighter to anyone other than the crew chief.
37. I am not allowed to destroy the Lieutenant Colonel's personal vehicle with any weapon on my mech.
a. Even if she clearly parked on the practice range and "had it coming"
b. This especially applies if my mech is equipped with ER PPCs, Gauss Rifles, or Arrow IV Artillery missiles. "Anytime the crosshairs change colors" does not constitute a legitimate target.

38.

I am not allowed to replace my lance leader's coffee with decaf.
a. Nor am I allowed to replace my lance leader's coffee with FWL expresso.
39. I am not allowed to call unmounted infantry "crunchies"
a. Mobile infantry is not to be called "Canned crunchies"
40. Facebook is for friends, not distributing patrol schedules or lance rosters.

[Nyoronet]

a

[SaintB]

"1. You must have a Mechwarrior character, you may have a secondary character that is of a different specialization if I approve."

What does this mean?

Also, what if 'we' don't have a clear grasp of the Mechwarrior canon?

It means that one of your characters must be a Mechwarrior, you may also have a secondary character such as a technician, or a tank driver, or some such.

As for not being well versed on the Canon that is ok as long as you can get along well enough with the other people to RP, you don't need to know about the second succession war or about how the events of current timeline launch the Jihad, or even what the Jihad is really about to be able to negotiate a character based RP.

[Strykla]

Duke von Teufel is not allowed to:

1: Put on a Purifier suit and talk indiscriminately, calling himself the Pyro
2: Yell LEEROY as his tanks break formation
3: Criticize Mechwarriors in German
b. Curse at Mechwarriors in German
c. Talk in German
4: Point at the Atlas and say, "No sloped armor!"
5: Run over enemies, back up over them, then run them over again
b. Unless they were piloting mechs
c. Unless it is HP's car
6: Put wings on an M1 Marksman and drive it off a ramp
7: Take the longest possible time relaying orders to Mechwarriors
b. Make 'chssshhhhh' sounds over the radio to fake static
c. Play Rammstein loudly over the radio
d. Replace all radios with computers hooked up to chatrooms
8: Take grainy videos of under somebody's bed and say, "Look! Word of Blake!"
9: Take Lays , stuff them in a gun barrel, and yell, "CHIPS IN A TOOB!"

[Sciosia]

I've been looking at Word of Blake fighters on the wiki and an trying to get into this, and am still studying the wiki. Are slots available? Would I be allowed to have a fighter rather than a mech?

[Sciosia]

Would a prototype of the archangel mech be too big to bring to the party? And can our character be cyberneticaly modded?

[Sciosia]

Mech Design for Approval:

Prototype Deva

Armor- 14 tons of ferro-fibrous armor

Weapons-
-Right Arm-Enhanced Extended Range PPC with Dual PPC Capacitors
-Left Arm-Enhanced Retractable Blade
Left Shoulder- Dual set of Medium Pulse Lasers with PPC capacitors slaved to the C3i for Close Quarters and  Anti-Air

Counter Measures-
-Improved Angel ECM Suite
-Integrated Void Signature System
-Laser Anti-Missile System
-Bloodhound Experimental Probe

Maneuverability- 
-Six Improved Jump Jets

Engine-
-Immortus 300 Compact Fusion

Cooling-
-20 double Heat Sinks

Targeting-
-Improved C3i Computer

Born:3045
Age:22
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 180
Call Sign: Mage
Personal Belongins: Vibro Blade, prosthetic attachments, Sunbeam Pistol,Starfire Er Rifle
For Alex Arcuno life is all statistics. He can't remember anything before his 21 birthday, and is trying to figure out what happened. Alex awoke inside a tube after what was described as a "traumatic" event. He immediately was thrown "back" into the midst of devout Word of Blake followers, and they almost all knew him. Things he had supposedly done were ruthless, calculating, and tactically brilliant. He was supposedly so loyal that after a "suicide" run he was pieced back together and "improved". By adding Cybernetic implants including Improved Enhanced Prosthetics with secondary power, Pain Shunts, Enhanced Multi-Modal Ear/Eye/Speech with Boosted Transmitting/Recording/Transmitting, Filtration Liver/Lung, full Body Myomar Implants including Dermal Myomar Armor and Triple Strength Myomar, and enhanced cosmetic surgery to make him appear as a normal, but attractive, human. At first re-integration went smoothly, Alex was a natural Mech Warrior and operative. His cybernetics made him faster and stronger than any normal man, and his reflexes were inhuman. He had a very specific skill set: eloquent violence. However, things began to seem wrong. Stories did not match up. Circumstances seem forced. Events became muddled. After awhile Alex needed out. Along with a few other discontents Alex began a way to fake their deaths. Arranging a fire fight with a group of traitors who had been siphoning off funds and investing them in industry. In a large explosion the small group was able to seize several experimental mechs and fighters. Along with the experimental equipment the group managed to "liberate" the substantial financial assets that were siphoned off by the agents they "liquidated". Unfortunately the substantial funds are tied up in long term investments and money is needed fast for repairs and maintenance. This leaves Alex looking for money and contacts to help him discover who he is, and if Alex is really his name.

[SaintB]

Would a prototype of the archangel mech be too big to bring to the party? And can our character be cyberneticaly modded?

Depends on the modifications... some are common (replacement limbs and such). If your talking about one of those Blake Style Robocop wannabes that are the same as a soldier in power armor I'll have to say no. As for the Archangel, it has a BV of above 1,400 and isn't available for 2 more years in the RP timeline. There will be chances to get better/newer mechs and tech as the RP goes along. I planned this one for a long haul and as soon as I get my home net back up and running the mock combat trial will begin.

[SaintB]

Mech Design for Approval:

Prototype Archangel

Armor- 9 tons (significantly reduced from normal) of ferro-fibrous armor

Weapons-
-Right Arm-Enhanced Extended Range PPC with Dual PPC Capacitors
-Left Arm-Enhanced Retractable Blade
Left Shoulder- Dual set of Medium Pulse Lasers with PPC capacitors slaved to the C3i for Close Quarters and  Anti-Air

Counter Measures-
-Improved Angel ECM Suite
-Integrated Void Signature System
-Laser Anti-Missile System
-Bloodhound Experimental Probe

Maneuverability- 
-Six Improved Jump Jets

Engine-
-Immortus 300 Compact Fusion

Cooling-
-20 double Heat Sinks

Targeting-
-Improved C3 Computer

Although there may be significant amounts of equipment here, the mech is 10-15 tons lighter than 100 tons due to 10 tons less armor and no ammunition due to energy weapons. Is this setup acceptable or do I have to downgrade the mech? Once I get an answer on this I will finish up with the rest of the app (bio, personal items, mech color scheme). I have become familiar with the jihad and all about the Word of Blake, so I should be good on lore.

Check your PM's mate.

[Strykla]

Would a prototype of the archangel mech be too big to bring to the party? And can our character be cyberneticaly modded?

This is two years before the mech's debut. Even the Void alone would give you an incredible advantage over other characters. Plus, BV is 2300.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

Hey guys, FYI I'm still alive just can't be active enough to do anything ICly.

Also, cardboard-and-duct-tape-Atlas costume is dead, for now.

[Sciosia]

Updated my app, the cybernetics would not make my character a tank, they would only stop small arms fire. Additionally, although the full production date of the new mech is a little off, prototypes come before full production. I hope. bv is about 1550, if that is too much the albatross with an additional ER PPC would be my choice.

[Sciosia]

Oh. I just noticed the Blake Robocop comment. I'm not trying to make a God character, I want a sniper/infiltrator. The cybernetics are meant to augment accuracy and communication with mechs for a long distance support role. Additionally, the implants I chose can only take small arms fire, nothing like a battlesuit or mech. If you don't like the Manei Domini I'll have to rewrite a bit.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

Oh. I just noticed the Blake Robocop comment. I'm not trying to make a God character, I want a sniper/infiltrator. The cybernetics are meant to augment accuracy and communication with mechs for a long distance support role. Additionally, the implants I chose can only take small arms fire, nothing like a battlesuit or mech. If you don't like the Manei Domini I'll have to rewrite a bit.

Considering who we'll be fighting later on, having a Manei Domini around would be quite shitty...

[Sciosia]

FORMER Manei Domini. Besides, some variety is a nice spice.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

FORMER Manei Domini. Besides, some variety is a nice spice.

Manei Domini are fanatically loyal to Blake. All of them. That's the only reason they're Manei Domini in the first place.