FATE of the Liberation Union Strike Team

[WickedCadrach]

20 minutes ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

Shall I wrap this scene up and return us to the firebase?

Sorry! It fell through my notifications and straight out of the back of my mind. I'll get a reply out soon to see if we get this Hive frame. 

[WritesNaughtyStories]

It was a weird weekend all the way around.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

 

This is my favorite post from this game so far.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

The Liberation Union REALLY needs a new pilot so Captain Payarkoon doesn't have to make Emily swap BioFrames.

@WickedCadrach, is Scyllia the jealous type?

[WickedCadrach]

It would be nice. 

Scylla definitely has a jealous streak. I think it's probably a control issue. She's a smaller frame, she can't out-muscle her problems, so she likes to feel in control of her circumstances—controlling where she perches and rests, running frequent scans to keep tabs on everything around her, and seeing Emily piloting another frame definitely sparks jealousy fed by that inability to 'control' Emily (as someone she relies on physically and emotionally).

[DreamsnThings]

circling back to this IRL, i have completely lost track of what I needed to do here, i remember I had a hijack style design going but mechanically i have no clue what to do

[WritesNaughtyStories]

The mechanics are pretty secondary - it's all hooked to story.

Can you share two short phrases or sentences that tell us something about your mech mechanic?

If you want, she can be a pilot instead. That might be more "action oriented" but there's all kind of stories available. Healing isn't a thing in Fate, but I think we could use a doctor too, if you prefer. Mechanic, carrier pilot, Hive citizen being liberated, all kinds of things on the table.

For the Captain, Magda, one is I was born to this

For your mechanic it could be something like Kaiju are people too since the BioFrames are part kaiju. It says that she values and understands the organic component and might be more inclined to defend or protect a monster than other people, maybe in a way that complicates things. But because she understands them, she con relate to the better, allowing her to liberate them more easily too.

[DreamsnThings]

I was never super into the mech sex angle frankly, hence why I was trying to pivot around it a little with the symbiotic angle... so the doctor angle could work, a citizen who ended up randomly gaining significance because of a McGuffin despite not being a pilot, or hell an RC specialist using low grade remote tools all could work

...Im normally not a sci fi gal so i have waaaaay fewer ideas for the setting sadly XD

[WickedCadrach]

29 minutes ago, DreamsnThings said:

so the doctor angle could work,

Funny thing about my character, she is in almost constant need of some kind of doctoring If we give a little bit of a 'combat medic' slant to your character then we can keep the group closer together in action sequences too. 

[DreamsnThings]

... honestly speaking I just had the really silly idea of having a medic with a big ass syringe looking weapon that shoots out a paralytic goo that can interfere with the biometrics of the cyborg like mechs, since they are part organic... also well it doesn't really fit with a full sized mech, but maybe a smol motorcycle like mech she could use to zoom around the fight could work nicely? kinda like the minibots transformers had for a while

[WickedCadrach]

Ooo, we could get you on an airbike or in, like, a little exo-suit like Iron Man (maybe not as wild as his, but something tough or nimble enough to get around without being squished by kaiju or BioFrames).

[WritesNaughtyStories]

@DreamsnThings, if you want a motorcycle-like mecha, it would probably be something like a mount. Some kind of cyborg direwolf, tiger or something.

Or is it some kind of Transformer?

[DreamsnThings]

I still like the idea of it being kinda bike like, so maybe something like the pokemon violet boxart pokemon where it was a kinda cross between an actual bike and a lizard, so maybe a kinda mecha rabbit who can hover, with the ears turning into a windshield when im zoomin owo?

im just trying to find a way to tie that in with the healy nursy stuffs

[WritesNaughtyStories]

FATE doesn't really do healing in the traditional fantasy RPG vein. But, we can work it in as she creates buffs as she zooms around the battlefield and speeds healing outside combat.

Does this motorcycle-bunny maybe turn into a kind of engineer battlesuit once she reaches the battlefield?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I am back again with my irregular, "Please join this game" post.

This kind of started off as a kind of "yeah, there's not enough porn in my other idea" joke, but actually what's emerged is a pretty cool story of freedom fighters, giant monster-mecha hybrids and an oppressive regime that uses emotion blockers to control the population.

We've had some interest in some engineers because the weird sexual connection to the mechs seems to be a bridge too far for many people - but hey, you don't have to write your interface that way (I think @WickedCadrach would tell you that is is a lot of fun though).

The story is getting ready to turn into the rebels trying to liberate a regime outpost that was supposed to be sacrificed to kaiju for propaganda purposes. The captain doesn't like that because it's shitty, but one of the pilots really hates it because she was liberated from the Hive regime when her parents were killed in a similar stunt.

We're using FATE to run this, but don't worry about the mechanics, they're utterly secondary to the narrative.

[WickedCadrach]

41 minutes ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

We've had some interest in some engineers because the weird sexual connection to the mechs seems to be a bridge too far for many people - but hey, you don't have to write your interface that way (I think @WickedCadrach would tell you that is is a lot of fun though).

I would and I will. If you have any kind of inkling for machines, tentacles, monsters... just saying that the cockpit of a cyborg-kaiju is a blank check to get a little spicy, get a little weird. But we do also love the drama and tenderness between our human freedom fighters too ❤

Edited 7 hours ago by WickedCadrach

[DreamsnThings]

honestly forgot about this for abit, but meant to join in, I had an idea based on the previous discussion for a motorcycle-esk bioframe used by a nurse and ended up with the idea of leaning into the cheesy nature of this hard, making a medic knight riding a bioframe horse, wearing metal armor that looks like a cross between heavy armor and high collared nurse scrubs, well using a lance and shield where the lance is closer to a giant syringe and the shield doubles as a medical computer...

I have... no context about what is going on right now so I really dont know what I want to do as far as backstory goes... but here we are!