Eagle's Talon RP Sign up/Interest/OOC thread

[D-38 Boss]

I've got a host of characters ready to go if you need another person in the mission, or Showstopper can help.

 

Take a peek at my post of NPC's if you'd like, and let me know.

[Helljumper425]

Yeah, go for it. Either of you want to hop onboard and add to the little plotless storyline we have going on our op, I'm all for it. I frankly still don't know what I want to end up happening here so yeah.

[Tranquility]

I don't mind, I'll just need to look it over first unless boss wants to

[D-38 Boss]

Nope. Go for it showstopper!

 

I'm probably going to run a little mission for my self in the meantime.

 

Helljumper, feel free to PM me if you'd like help with a little brainstorming for your mission.

[Is not JL]

You need permission? And you can't have more than one character?..... :L

 

Note that because much of the 1st post was very un-specific about timelines and canonity, I've used traditional Halo lore and use the idea that this RP takes place after the events of Halo 4's campaign, as Requiem has been discovered.

 

Name: 'JL'

 

Affiliation: Spartan IV

 

Race: Genetically Modified Enhanced Human Warrior, 'SPARTAN IV'

 

Appearance: Never seen without some armor (Or his semi-stolen Energy Sword, something which, surprisingly, he knows how to recharge and does it whenever the Commanders say 'Care for your weapons!), JL wears black armor with dark blue additions and utilizes a 4.0 VISR, visibly blue when viewed from the outside. Taller than the average human but not as tall and as large as the average Spartan IV, JL is sleeker and less muscular than others of his genetic brethren.

 

Weapon of Choice: Energy Sword.

 

History (And THIS is where it gets interesting) + Bio: JL is more or less a prodigy who lacks the ability to utilize his full potential; rather brag about it and actually not do anything about it than actually using his abilities. Joining the UNSC Military on Reach merely days before the invasion of the Covenant, his military school was instantly attacker. Hotheaded as always, first thing he did was grab an Assault Rifle and jump into the line of fire, and, by what is possibly a fluke, shoot down a pair of Sangheili and their squad of Unggoy. 

Of course, he did do the right thing; if not for his killing, each of his squad members would have died. Despite his ignorant personality and the fact that he thinks he's the best, deep down he still has a good heart and wouldn't hesitate to step out and help people truly in need.

 

As such, when he joined the war, he became a 'dropout', leaving the military due to the the death around him, whether it was on his side of the war or the side that wanted him dead. So for a time, he didn't serve with the military.

 

Then came the day that changed it for good.

 

The invasion of earth began, and while most of the fighting was focused in and around the area of Africa, it wasn't the only place invaded. His home was one of the place attacked, and he convinced himself to do nothing and let the military do all the dirty work.

 

Nope. A squad of Sangheili, each wielding an Energy Sword, air-dropped down and killed all of the marines. Of course, 'JL' (He wasn't always known with that name) was forced to pick up a Battle Rifle from the ground, and used his knowledge of the surroundings to eventually reduce the fight to a one on one against the leader of the Sangheili Squadron; a battle he barely won just thanks to his nimble form and his fast reaction time. Of course, it was a battle that he got out of not without marks, temporary physical ones and then the mental ones that would take more than biofoam to heal.

 

And so, soon afterwards, he rejoined the military, easily getting a boost due to both his ignoring of orders (Whoever looked at his file was probably pretty desperate) and his abilities - abilities that were already amazing for itself, but was untamed.

 

Abilities that would only be intensified when he was forced into the Spartan IV project by ONI, who wanted him used as a powerful strike force soldier, to try and harness his skills. Slowly, pride overcame himself, and he became the more arrogant person he is today, especially after all the medals he earned from the missions ONI gave to him. Eventually, ONI transferred him to the UNSC Eagle's Talon, using him as a defense force; but also keeping him in check, knowing him to be a very loose cannon.

 

Not in combat though, he is a bit of a joker.

 

Weakness: Hotheaded and Arrogant, and too sure of his own abilities, JL rarely ever plans, and provoked, would happily run into a trap - which, unsurprisingly, has happened more than once, which he has escaped without a scratch from.

[D-38 Boss]

Excellent! You're in!

 

Fell free to make an introductory post on the off duty thread, and ask me if you'd like to be assigned a mission.

 

Also, if you want to run extra characters you can, it's just one character is your main, the extra's would be in his/her squad.

[Surveillance]

I am back! Question though, how many people here like Star Wars?

[D-38 Boss]

I wear movie grade Star Wars costumes for charity. I think I like it. Why?

[Surveillance]

I was thinking about an RP for it... I don't know maybe.

[Tranquility]

Sorry I haven't been posting, I've been busy, and reading the mission I don't think there's any good way a spartan could've been included

[Is not JL]

Also, if you want to run extra characters you can, it's just one character is your main, the extra's would be in his/her squad.

 

Right, then. If more than one character is allowed, this'll be my second  and third character, and they and my 'main' as you say it will push each other's character development. 

 

Name: Geo

 

Affiliation: Spartan II - Spartan IV

 

Race: Twice genetically enhanced human fighter, 'Spartan IV'.

 

Appearance: One of the last surviving Spartan II's, Geo towers over the average Spartan IV the same way the average Spartan IV towers over the average human. He is bulkier, more muscular and generally bigger, but he still manages to outspeed much of the Spartan IV's like it were nothing. His armor is colored crimson, with many shades of black to go with it. In combat, he's rarely seen without a weapon in his right hand and the key to finishing the fight in the other.

 

Weapon of Choice: DMR (Uses anything, so long as it finishes the fight in the best and quickest way)

 

History: Obviously, much of the following is classified; many people don't know it. Geo does, and he keeps it even from his current squad, the people closest to him nowadays. 

 

Kidnapped the night before his 5th birthday, Geo is one of the youngest Spartan II's to exist; it was luck that the Spartans were trained in a way that made each of them related the same way one might feel to a brother or sister. Geo was trained for the next decade, the amazing teaching capabilities the military provided boosting his already heightened knowledge, the physical training successfully improving his body's  already above-average abilities until they were near the average human max by the time he hit puberty.

 

Then came the augmentation.

 

Geo survived. He nearly didn't; both of his arm's bones were pulverized as the bone improvements were a bit too slow compared to the muscle density improvements. First there was the small pain in his elbow; when he twitched to the pain, his muscles squeezed his bones to smithereens.

 

2 weeks after most of the other Spartan II's recovered and were amidst their zero-g training, Geo awoke from his coma, his arms having just been saved. To this day, he still feels slight pain in his elbows, although he feels it much less, and to a much lower scale.

 

After augmentation, he continued training, his maximum now improved to the point that he didn't have one. (His sexual drive too. Woops.) His mental capabilities, something which made him a better strategist than the other Spartans, who were already at ONI level mission planning, were improved as well; in every mission, in every fight, he has the ability to plan ahead, predict the enemy, and come  out with a win; his brain can literally play out the moves ahead in the fight, see the most likely, and respond. To him, every fight is a game.

 

A lethal game that can take the life of anyone he cared about, if he made one mistep.

 

Many times, he survived the ops that his friends - friends who he cared for and was cared by the same way a brother and sister cared for each other, were killed. This conflicted him; as a Spartan he was meant to put duty before anything else; he'd been told time and time again that those who disobeyed orders were scum. But having been a successful Spartan II test subject who had nearly died and had for 2 weeks felt immense pain while his friends were watching him, hoping he would survive, also made him one of the most emotional, most human Spartans there were.

 

Eventually there came an operation that took the life of his best friend in the Spartan II project - his squad of 3, led by him, and joined by his best friend and another female Spartan. The operation was a success, but during the process, the female was captured by enemy forces and while Geo tried to continue the mission, his best friend went back to save her. The words exchanged affected Geo's future the most: "People who disobey the rules might be scum, but people who leave their teammates are even worse scum!", and Geo also went back. Together all 3 Spartans escaped, but as they ran, one of the enemies who had a Rocket Launcher, determined Geo, as squad leader, to be responsible for his soon-to-be-death. A lucky shot meant for Geo was instead taken by his friend, who acknowledged Geo as being the better one of the two, before ushering him to finish what they originally set out to do.

 

Fast forward to just a few years ago, and Geo is luckily chosen as the first previous Spartan who is inserted into the Spartan IV program, and he was redirected to work for the Infinity project just before the fall of Reach. On Infinity he helped with the process of Spartan initiation, Spartan IV training processes and the Infinity's war games simulations. It was during this time that he helped pick a list of people who would be successful as the Commander of the Spartan IV's, and it was during this time that he reviewed the files of two other Spartan IV candidates, who would, by his command (And ONI's) be directed into his squad, named 'Lightning' by the spooks, which would then be redirected again to Eagle's Talon.

 

It was just by chance that both choices possessed genes that would have made them candidates for the Spartan II's - and, with the addition of the same, if not better, bio-augmentations, he knew that eventually their physical and therefore mental capabilities would easily reach and possibly surpass the abilities of the Spartan II's. This became a reason why he eventually started training the two of them,

 

His first choice was JL, who ended up being his own 'protege', with Geo training the younger Spartan in the ways of combat, trying to utilize the capabilities that the arrogant yet skillful Spartan IV had. His second choice was Reyna, the Spartan he picked due to her polar opposite of JL, whose arrogance led him to both disobey the rules, yet still be a 'good person' and save others, while Reyna was a serious person who always followed the rules. Together, 'Lightning' was one of the best Spartan IV squads; if placed into the UNSC Infinity's crew, their 3 man team, in War Games simulations, would easily be able to hold their own against Infinity's best Spartan IV squads, such as the 4-man Crimson or the 5-man Majestic. That would be, if Reyna and JL weren't arguing, and if Geo wasn't too caught up in his own mental issues.

 

Weaknesses: Geo's ability to plan and overplan can sometimes backfire, as there are times when he has limited information. Another weakness is the physical issue of intense pain that would happen when intense pressure was placed upon his elbows; such pain could cause memory of physical trauma, which would then further worsen his fighting capabilities for the time.

 

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Name: Reyna

 

Affiliation: Spartan III Beta Squad - Spartan IV

 

Race: Genetically enhanced human, Spartan IV

 

Appearance: Sleek and curvy, Reyna could be classified as hot. And pretty, too. For a Spartan. Her armor, similarly, is sleek, sharp but smooth at the same time, and whether or not she is wearing it, many others find her attractive. In combat, she is constantly not there. Search for her if you will, but you will never find one of the best stealth specialists of the Spartan IV's. Wearing armor of different shades of purple, you will never find her holding a weapon that isn't based on Precision and range.

 

Weapon of choice: Customized Sniper Rifle 

 

History: One of the youngest Spartan III's who were placed into Beta squad, she lost her parents to the covenant. Due to her age, there was very little 'missing' - she joined the Spartan III's out of fear from what would happen if she said 'no', and soon after did everything due to orders. During the bio-augmentation, it was discovered she had the similar genes as the Spartan II candidates, and she was chosen to a possible Noble Team candidate. The spots were filled quickly, so instead she was placed for the Infinity and Spartan IV projects.

 

All of the times where she has barely been able to grasp something, but failed, and was pushed by someone into something else, made her into an obedient soldier who always followed what other people told them, never trying out new things on her own, afraid of the pain of failure that will come. 

 

Soon afterwards, she was placed into 'Lightning', led by Geo. She quickly developed a rivalry with the remaining member, JL, who ignored many rules and struck out on his own. Despite all this, though, they still see each other as friends and have no hate with each other, although many times they develop into conflict which is only quelled by Geo.

 

The one thing that makes her different is that she was a Beta squad soldier who also received the drugs, 009762-OO and 009927-DG, the drug that caused Gamma Spartan's to have increased fighting power and pain resistance, especially when near death. However, she didn't receive 009127-PX, the effect that neutralizes the combat drug, only the drug that neutralizes the psychological effects. In combination with her genes, this caused her to receive increased aggression response, resistance to pain and a 'heightened' boost whenever Adrenaline came, and as such every time threatened, she changes into a non-strategic fighting machine.

 

As such, she trained to be a sniper, where the risk was at the least, and learned to become a great marksman, capable of customizing and utilizing different Sniper parts to the best for the mission she was one, and being able to quickly disassemble and reassemble her weapons while in perfect stealth, and in the perfect position. As such, she is most likely to use either an Active Camouflage module or a Jetpack Unit.

[D-38 Boss]

Alright. I've no problem with that. The more the merrier.

 

Here's your mission BTW:

 

"JL, We've got a bit of a stretch here, but we figured it be worth checking out. Reports are coming in of a cloaked ship positioned on Mars. We managed to get a few I.D. hits, suggesting it's a covenant ship. We're sending you there to investigate. It's a medium sized Destroyer class, so expect Sanghelli and Unggoy to be there inn decent numbers. get into the ship, Find out what it's doing there, and destroy it. Make it look like an accident. The truce between the humans and Covenant is Shaky at best. We need to make sure this situation doesn't get out of hand. Good Luck."

[D-38 Boss]

So... I'm gonna call it. The RP's are all dead. we had a good run, but not enough people posted regularly.

 

Feel free to try to keep it going, but I think it's safe to say this RP has lived out it's lifetime.

[Is not JL]

The thing is, the reason this RP is dead is because there isn't a driving force behind it. In fact, it technically isn't an RPG, just a text based game. People are 'sent on assignments' and they write that. But that's boring, because there isn't any interaction with other characters, no actual story. Just....stuff.

 

There's another RP I played, similarly based on a fictional, and very filled universe yet in a fan made one, and it's an adventure like no other playing it. Another guy here, Axilus Prime, will tell your the same thing. What makes it amazing, apart from the great writers there, is the ability to interact in a fully sandbox game - you can do things, and you can set up your own plots, your own story arcs, for other players to join, while you have other characters to join them. All the while, the main game arc set up by the game staff runs, and you can feel free to have an impact on that one.

 

THAT's what makes a text based RPG amazing. You don't have anything like a video game RPG, whether there are other players on it or not, where you can create amazing gameplay. A Text Based RPG is amazing because there is no such thing as 'gameplay'. There is just choices, and there is how good you can write.

 

 

If you want, we can make one. PM me! I would love to create a fully functioning TBRPG here, where the community has a bit more of a talent for common sense....

 

And also because this community is accessible. It'll be easy, it'll be fun!

[D-38 Boss]

If you want to, I'll be all for it.

[Tranquility]

Sorry I didn't post, didn't have Internet for a month

[D-38 Boss]

It's alright. This RP is finished, but me and Jl1223 X are working on getting a new, better one up. Keep an eye out for it.

[Tranquility]

Planned on it, it seems like a good idea that he had

[BaconShelf]

The mafia one? I read that and got confused.

[D-38 Boss]

The mafia one? I read that and got confused.

 

No, that's his forum game. we have another RP based loosely around halo in the works. We've been working on it outside of the forum, and we'll be posting it once we're ready to start.

[Is not JL]

And we're getting close. Reaaaal close. I think we have 2 other RP staff (I hope) and now the only thing really left is 1. Art, 2. Writing the story and 3. Starting the topics.

 

 

 

 

In any case, if you're confused about the Mafia one, would be great if you told me what you were confused about.

[BaconShelf]

I can art and staff for ya